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It was the first time a ballistic missile had landed near the South's waters since the peninsula was divided in 1945, and the most missiles fired by the North ...

Price added that the United States and its allies had also made clear that there would be "profound costs and profound consequences" if North Korea resumed nuclear testing. The North also fired more than 100 rounds of artillery from its east coast into a military buffer zone, South Korea's military said. The JCS later said as many as 14 other missiles of various types had been fired from North Korea's east and west coasts. South Korean warplanes fired three air-to-ground missiles into the sea north across the NLL in response, the South's military said. He said even its name imitated the U.S.-led Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in the 1990s. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that the drills were purely defensive and harboured no hostile intent. "We stayed there until we came upstairs at around 9:15 after hearing that the projectile fell into the high seas." North Korea has continuously been launching missiles over the past year in violation of multiple U.N. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said. South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response. "We heard the siren at around 8:55 a.m. It was the first time a ballistic missile had landed near the South's waters since the peninsula was divided in 1945, and the most missiles fired by the North in a single day.

Air raid sirens have sounded on a South Korean island and residents evacuated to underground shelters after North Korea fired more than 20 missiles, ...

South Korea says North Korea has fired an additional six missiles off its eastern and western coasts. South Korea's military said the launches came after it ...

They noted this “clearly showed the nature of the North Korean government,” according to South Korea’s presidential office. Some experts still doubt North Korea would use nuclear weapons first in the face of U.S. Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said that the danger of armed clashes between the Koreas off their western or eastern coasts is increasing. Later Wednesday, South Korean fighter jets launched three air-to-surface, precision-guided missiles near the eastern sea border to show its determination to get tough on North Korean provocations. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of the In 2010, North Korea shelled a frontline South Korean island off the peninsula's western coast, killing four people. South Korea’s transport ministry said it has closed some air routes above the country’s eastern waters until Thursday morning in the wake of the North Korean launches. It landed in international waters but far south of the two countries’ border, off the east coast of South Korea. Also Wednesday, North Korea fired about 100 artillery shells into an eastern maritime buffer zone the Koreas created in 2018 to reduce tensions, according to South Korea’s military. One of the ballistic missiles was flying toward South Korea’s Ulleung island before it eventually landed 167 kilometers (104 miles) northwest of the island. The White House maintained that the United States has no hostile intent toward North Korea and vowed to work with allies to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's military fired a record 23 ballistic missiles on Wednesday, sending residents of a South Korean island to underground ...

It also fired 100 rounds of artillery into a maritime buffer zone between the two countries, the South Korean military said, in violation of a 2018 agreement. “And of course it’s very difficult, as previous South Korean leaders have found, to find any effective response which doesn’t escalate the situation further.” and South Korean officials say North Korea may also be preparing for its seventh nuclear test, which would be its first since September 2017. Photos published in South Korean media showed residents of the island being evacuated to underground shelters. At 8:51 a.m., North Korea launched three short-range ballistic missiles from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan. Tuesday ET), the South Korean military said, with four short-range ballistic missiles launched into the Yellow Sea from North Pyongan Province. South Korea responded by firing three air-to-surface missiles toward the northern side of the border, which North Korea followed with 100 rounds of artillery and additional missile launches that lasted into the evening. North Korea has already conducted more than 50 missile launches this year, far more than ever before. A statement from an official close to Kim suggested that if North Korea were attacked, he could use nuclear weapons to make the two countries “pay the most horrible price in history.” They said they would thoroughly prepare for any further North Korean provocations and continue to strengthen cooperation. North Korea’s provocations on Wednesday, while highly symbolic, are “more for show than for military escalation,” he told NBC News. Analysts said they were likely a sign of Kim’s desire to ratchet up tensions as he seeks to develop his regime’s nuclear arsenal,

The US is accusing North Korea of secretly supplying Russia with artillery shells for the Ukraine war by concealing where they are being transported to, ...

Over the summer, Russia was able to make some grinding progress in parts of Ukraine through a punishing artillery campaign. “In September, the (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) publicly denied that it intended to provide ammunition to Russia,” the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said in a statement to CNN. “You’d expect these Soviet-era systems are aging so they will start to break down.” US officials believe that the surreptitious North Korean shipments – along with drones and other weaponry that Russia has acquired from Iran – are further evidence that even Moscow’s conventional artillery arsenals have dwindled during eight months of combat. “The Russian army has likely gone through millions of shells at this point.” Officials did not provide evidence to support the new allegations.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby speaks. "We're not talking dozens here. It's a significant number of artillery shells, ...

The shipments were is monitoring whether the shipments from North Korea are actually received. The U.S.

Pyongyang launched at least 10 missiles. One fell near South Korean waters, setting off air raid sirens on an eastern island.

Yoon declared [a period of national mourning](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/30/seoul-halloween-stampede-itaewon-south-korea/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22) until Nov. [killed ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/01/south-korea-police-crowd-crush-itaewon/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22)more than 150 people, most of them young adults. and South Korean officials, has overseen four of the North’s six nuclear weapons tests, and the majority of the regime’s missile tests to date. In a separate statement, South Korea’s military said it would respond “firmly.” U.S. No one was hurt after the island’s 9,000 residents were told to seek shelter, a spokesman for the island’s local government said. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said he had ordered the military to ensure that North Korea “pays a clear price for its provocation,” according to his office.

Tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday after North Korea fired at least 23 ballistic missiles, leading South Korea to respond by launching its ...

and South Korea in protest of the two allies conducting military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. The missile launches resulted in South Korea issuing rare air raid warnings, sending residents fleeing to underground shelters. South Korean airplanes fired three air-to-ground missiles into the seas north across the NLL borderline in response to North Korea’s launches, South Korea’s military noted that the weapons fired by North Korea were all short-range ballistic missiles or suspected surface-to-air missiles, adding that North Korea also fired at least 100 artillery shells into the Northern Limit Line (NLL), an eastern maritime buffer zone South Korea created four years ago to reduce tensions between the two countries. In a statement, South Korea’s military confirmed that its northern neighbor launched at least 23 missiles throughout the day, firing 17 in the morning and six in the afternoon off of its eastern and western coasts, Tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday after North Korea fired at least 23 ballistic missiles, leading South Korea to respond by launching its own missile barrage.

The United States has information that indicates North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a "significant" number of artillery shells for its war in ...

Referring to North Korea missile launches on Wednesday, Kirby said they did not pose an immediate threat to U.S. "And it's certainly not going to change our calculus ... South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story "Our indications are that the DPRK is covertly supplying and we are going to monitor to see whether the shipments are received," Kirby said, adding that Washington would consult with the United Nations on accountability issues over the shipments. Kirby told a virtual briefing that North Korea was attempting to obscure the shipments by funneling them through countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Kirby insisted that the North Korean shipments are “not going to change the course of the war,” citing Western efforts to resupply the Ukrainian military. The ...

and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. The launches came after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. This year’s Vigilant Storm military exercises are the largest-ever for the annual fall maneuvers, according to U.S. ”These launches did not pose an immediate threat to the American homeland or U.S. The U.S. 4 and include warfighting tactics both in the air and on the ground, it said. doesn’t believe “they are in such a quantity that the would change the momentum of the war.” ”There’s an annual exercise ongoing right now, bilateral exercises in South Korea,” Kirby said. It said the weapons were all short-range ballistic missiles or suspected surface-to-air missiles. 31, are to continue through Nov. “As [Russian President Vladimir Putin] continues to lose ground, lose soldiers, to lose momentum, he’s reaching beyond his borders,” Kirby said. North Korea also fired about 100 artillery shells into an eastern maritime buffer zone the Koreas created in 2018 to reduce tensions, according to South Korea’s military.

The North Korean government is covertly funneling artillery shells to aid Russia in its war in Ukraine using countries in the Middle East and North Africa ...

[Russia-Ukraine war](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-russia/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_7). officials have warned of [possible future transfers of missiles](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/16/iran-russia-missiles-ukraine/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16). [including kamikaze attack drones](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/20/russia-iran-kamikaze-drones/?itid=ap_shaneharris&itid=lk_inline_manual_16), to Russia. [Subscribe to our channel](https://t.me/washingtonpost?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_8) for updates and exclusive video. Security Council its unfounded accusation that Ukraine is planning to use a and international “export controls have had an effect on Mr. [support the Ukrainian people](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/27/how-to-help-ukraine/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_5) as well as [what people around the world have been donating](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/donate-ukraine-money-crypto/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_6). Assad also maintains relations with North Korea, which has been accused of providing the Syrian military with ballistic missiles and chemical weapons components in defiance of U.N. Russia has control, under a bilateral agreement, of the naval base at Tartus, on the Mediterranean coast, as well as Hmeimim air base. In 2019, the two countries signed an economic cooperation agreement. In the Middle East, Russia has close relations with Syria, where it has been President Bashar al-Assad’s primary military patron in an 11-year civil war that has become a standoff with rebel and extremist groups largely backed into a corner in the northwestern part of the country. [more than a dozen nations](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/mali-russia-wagner/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15) on the continent.

Air raid sirens have sounded on a South Korean island and residents evacuated to underground shelters after North Korea fired more than 20 missiles, ...

Some experts still doubt North Korea would use nuclear weapons first in the face of U.S. They noted this “clearly showed the nature of the North Korean government,” according to South Korea’s presidential office. Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said the danger of armed clashes between the Koreas off their western or eastern coasts is increasing. Animosities on the Korean Peninsula have been running high in recent months, with North Korea testing a string of nuclear-capable missiles and adopting a law authorizing the preemptive use of its nuclear weapons in a broad range of situations. Later Wednesday, South Korean fighter jets launched three air-to-surface, precision-guided missiles near the eastern sea border to show its determination to get tough on North Korean provocations. In 2010, North Korea shelled a front-line South Korean island off the peninsula’s western coast, killing four people. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. It landed in international waters off the east coast of South Korea. The launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. Also Wednesday, North Korea fired about 100 artillery shells into an eastern maritime buffer zone the Koreas created in 2018 to reduce tensions, according to South Korea’s military. Hours later, South Korea’s military said it lifted the air raid alert on the island. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area.

One missile came within about 100 miles of a South Korean island, triggering air raid sirens there.

[WBUR.org.](https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/11/02/north-korea-missile-launches) Walsh is a senior research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. One came within about 100 miles of a South Korean island, triggering air raid sirens there.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Thursday that flew over Japanese territory, according to alerts in Japan, the second test flight in a month to fly ...

4, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, prompted a warning for residents there to take cover. It was the farthest North Korea had ever fired a missile. The first missile flew to an altitude of about 2,000 kilometres and a range of 750 kilometres, he said. South Korea said both of those were short-range missiles fired from Kaechon, north of Pyongyang. About an hour after the first launch, South Korea's military and the Japanese coast guard reported a second and third launch from North Korea. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

North Korean weapons are 'not going to change the course of the war' in Ukraine, White House says.

“My belief is that Russia has lost this war, and they are just like the Germans in World War II, continuing to fire B1s and B2s at London,” he said. But it's also a sign of how much he's doubling down on continuing this war, that he's willing to go outside the lifelines, as it were, to find foreign suppliers.” “I'm actually more concerned with what the Iranians are doing than what the North Koreans are doing,” Williams said. “What North Korea is providing to Russia is older, unguided artillery shells,” said Ian Williams, deputy director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “So, the kind that you essentially fire just based on the ballistic trajectory, and it will kind of land where it may. resolution that forbids weapons sales from the pariah nation, he said, adding that the U.S.

North Korea fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile on Thursday, that Japan said flew over its main island, landing in the Pacific Ocean, ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry later evaluated that the missile did not cross over Japan. Thursday’s launches take the count of North Korean missile tests to at least 30 so far this year, according to a CNN tally – though the count of individual missiles is far higher. It was the highest number of North Korean short-range missiles fired in a single day, and included a ballistic missile that landed close to South Korean territorial waters for the first time since the division of Korea, according to the JCS. [cruise missiles and ballistic missiles](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/asia/north-korea-cruise-missile-nuclear-threat-intl-hnk), the latter of which have formed the large majority of North Korea’s tests this year. On Wednesday, North Korea launched at least 23 short-range missiles of varying types to the east and west of the Korean Peninsula, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday it detected one presumed long-range missile fired from North Korea’s capital Pyongyang, followed by two presumed short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Kaechon area of South Pyongan province.

North Korea continued its barrage of weapons tests on Thursday, firing at least three missiles including a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that ...

and South Korean officials say North Korea may up the ante in the coming weeks with its first detonation of a nuclear test device since September 2017. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. Experts say such tests could possibly bring North Korea a step closer to its goal of building a full-fledged arsenal threatening regional U.S. commitment to the security of its ally, according to their offices. The North has punctuated its tests with an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorizes preemptive nuclear attacks over a variety of loosely defined crisis situations. North Korea has been ramping up its weapons demonstrations to a record pace this year. Those launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. While South Korean officials didn’t immediately release more specific flight details, the longer-range missile may have been fired on a high angle to avoid reaching the territory of the North's neighbors. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area. The office of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida issued warnings to residents in the northern prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata, instructing them to go inside firm buildings or underground. and then firing two short-range missiles an hour later from the nearby city of Kacheon that flew toward its eastern waters. They came a day after Pyongyang fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day ever.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday the U.S. believes North Korea is "trying to make it appear as though they're being sent to ...

Its possible dispatch of laborers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a U.N. The North’s arms export to Russia would be a violation of U.N. [Iranian-manufactured drones](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-is-the-significance-of-russia-attacking-ukraine-with-iranian-drones) for use on the battlefield in Ukraine. or other nations would attempt to interdict the shipments to Russia. has “an idea” of which country or countries the North may funnel the weapons through but wouldn’t specify, because the administration continues to look at how it might respond to North Korea’s actions. The White House revealed the new intelligence nearly two months after first alleging that U.S.

North Korea launched 23 short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday (Nov. 2), a record-breaking fusillade that spurred a response from is neighbor to the ...

Follow us on Twitter [@Spacedotcom](https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom) (opens in new tab) or on Follow him on Twitter [@michaeldwall](https://twitter.com/michaeldwall) (opens in new tab). officials think that North Korea is "trying to make it appear as though they're being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa," U.S. In March, for example, the nation Shortly thereafter, North Korea launched three more missiles eastward from Wonsan, a town on the nation's east coast. The barrage began on Wednesday morning North Korean time (Tuesday evening U.S.

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says one may have been an intercontinental ballistic missile. It comes after Pyongyang on Wednesday launched its most ...

It landed outside South Korea's territorial waters but was the closest a North Korean missile got to the border. It comes just a month after North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan - the first time it had done so in five years. North Korea's multiple launches comes as the US and South Korea are staging their largest-ever joint air drills, which Pyongyang has strongly criticised as "aggressive and provocative".

North Korea fired at least three ballistic missiles Thursday, including one long-range rocket that Japan said may have been an intercontinental ballistic ...

Emergency broadcasting system in Japan warns residents to stay indoors, saying missile flew over its territory.

It was the first time since the 1945 division of the peninsula that North Korea weapons had landed so close to South Korea, [26km beyond the northern limit line](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/north-korea-has-fired-three-ballistic-missiles-into-sea-south-koreas-military-says). Wednesday’s launches were the most North Korea has ever fired in a single day. The large-scale drills began on Monday and will run until Friday. That launch forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and halt trains. The three missiles launched just before 8am local time, the Japanese defence minister, Yasukazu Hamada, said, and confirmed that none had flown over Japan. The government and military in Japan are on alert for further missile launches on Thursday following the unprecedented flurry from North Korea the previous day.

The launches are the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests in recent months.

and South Korean officials say North Korea may up the ante in the coming weeks with its first detonation of a nuclear test device since September 2017. Experts say such tests could possibly bring North Korea a step closer to its goal of building a full-fledged arsenal threatening regional U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. The North has punctuated its tests with an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorizes preemptive nuclear attacks over a variety of loosely defined crisis situations. commitment to the security of its ally, according to their offices. North Korea has been ramping up its weapons demonstrations to a record pace this year. Those launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. While South Korean officials didn’t immediately release more specific flight details, the longer-range missile may have been fired on a high angle to avoid reaching the territory of the North’s neighbors. Hamada said the missile “disappeared” from Japanese radars in skies above waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area. and then firing two short-range missiles an hour later from the nearby city of Kacheon that flew toward its eastern waters. They came a day after Pyongyang fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day ever.

The launches came a day after North Korea fired about two dozen missiles, with one falling near South Korean waters for the first time since the end of the ...

and South Korean officials said earlier this year that Pyongyang had finished preparations for a seventh nuclear test. In response, South Korea’s armed forces said it fired three air-to-ground precision missiles near North Korean waters. North Korea’s record number of weapons tests this year have occurred amid stalled negotiations with Washington over its nuclear program. The barrage of missiles that North Korea launched on Wednesday represented the most fired in a single day. About an hour later, two short-range missiles were fired from the nearby city of Kacheon, according to the JCS. Japan had alerted that one of Thursday’s missiles might have flown over its territory, ordering residents in its northern prefectures to take shelter indoors.

North Korea has added to its barrage of recent weapons tests, firing at least three missiles including an intercontinental ballistic missile that forced the ...

and South Korean officials say North Korea may up the ante in the coming weeks with a nuclear test, which would be its seventh overall. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. Following North Korea’s additional launches on Thursday, the South Korean and U.S. Nuclear disarmament talks between Washington and Pyongyang have been stalled since 2019 because of disagreements over an easing of crippling U.S.-led sanctions against North Korea in exchange for its denuclearization steps. North Korea has punctuated its tests with an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorizes preemptive nuclear attacks over a variety of loosely defined crisis situations. It also said it lost track of one of the North Korean weapons, apparently the ICBM, after it “disappeared” in skies above waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. “This launch, in addition to the launch of multiple other ballistic missiles this week, is a flagrant violation of multiple U.N. Those launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. Kishida condemned North Korea's latest launches and said officials were analyzing the details of the weapons. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area. They came a day after the North fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has launched in a single day ever. and then two short-range missiles an hour later from the nearby city of Kaechon that flew toward its eastern waters.

The hundreds of South Korean and American warplanes simulating attacks during drills are most likely what led North Korea to test a record number of ...

Beijing dislikes nuclear tests on its doorstep but has also blamed Washington and Seoul for exacerbating the situation. If North Korea prefers to conduct a nuclear test in a crisis, it is well on its way to manufacturing one." "In terms of politics and diplomacy, Kim's focus is on pressing the United States ahead of its midterm elections into withdrawing hostile policies by emphasising to voters that the Biden administration's North Korea policy has failed," said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. North Korea has completed all the technical preparations for a nuclear test - its first since 2017 - according to South Korean and U.S. warplanes flying missions around the clock. "They were calibrated escalate tensions.

Pyongyang's latest test launches come just a day after both North and South Korea fired missiles across the de facto maritime border between the two ...

[North Korea keeps up its missile barrage with launch of ICBM](https://apnews.com/article/business-japan-united-states-seoul-south-korea-aed56829790621f0d0abfb4fafa91aca) (Associated Press) [N. and South Korean forces in the region “pay the most horrible price in history.” Tensions came to a head on Wednesday when both North and South Korea fired multiple missiles across the Northern Limit Line—the de facto maritime border between the two countries. The Hwasong-17 is one of Pyongyang’s most advanced ballistic missiles and is designed to be capable of targeting the U.S mainland. [According to](https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/11/d9c79eca21a4-urgent-n-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-over-japan-2nd-in-month.html) Kyodo News, residents in Japan initially received an alert to seek shelter as the ICBM was expected to fly over the Japanese mainland but this was later changed after the missile landed in waters to the west of the country. and South Korea to extend their joint exercises beyond the original Friday end —a move that is almost certain to infuriate North Korea's leadership. The heavily sanctioned North Korean regime is one of the few around the world who have openly supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

After firing the most-ever missiles in a single day Tuesday, North Korea test-fired three more on Wednesday morning.

In a retaliatory move, South Korea quickly responded in between by launching its own air-to-surface missiles into a similar area above the NLL, launched by two F-15K and KF-16 jet fighters. The two Koreas test-fired missiles one after another throughout Wednesday in a series of tit-for-tat moves. “They are going on a full-scale sprint. and South Korea into nuclear talks or a prelude to justifying an imminent seventh nuclear underground test. Authorities said they were still analyzing the details. But Japan’s Defense Ministry later said the missile did not fly over Japan.

Wednesday's launches marked the first time a North Korean missile had flown over the de facto maritime border separating the two Koreas since the Korean War ...

[preparations](https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/N-Korea-at-crossroads/South-Korea-s-Yoon-says-North-has-finished-preparing-for-nuke-test) to top it off with the test-detonation of an atomic bomb, if it so chooses. Pyongyang has [called](https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20221006000951325) the deployments a threat to regional stability. It's a part of a five-year plan to beef up its nuclear and missile arsenals, in hopes of forcing the U.S. to make concessions, such as sanctions relief and recognition of Pyongyang as a nuclear weapons state. While this has been predicted for months, Pyongyang may think that timing it to coincide with U.S. and South Korea] from approaching North Korea." South Korea responded by firing two air-to-ground missiles across the maritime border into international waters. One flew toward Ulleung Island off South Korea's east coast, triggering air raid sirens, before dropping in the sea. "First, they launched missiles from all around the country — east, west, south, north," he explains. He adds that the quantity of projectiles suggests that North Korea has produced ample stockpiles of weapons. Japan's government initially issued an alert for three prefectures, saying the ICBM had flown over the main island of Honshu, but later corrected the statement. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called the launches "intolerable."

North Korea launched the missiles a day after firing 23 others - its most ever in a single day.

[BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63494751)reported. [spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/02/statement-by-nsc-spokesperson-adrienne-watson-on-the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-koreas-icbm-test/). [AP](https://apnews.com/article/business-japan-united-states-seoul-south-korea-aed56829790621f0d0abfb4fafa91aca?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_02) reported. and its allies. [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/world/asia/north-korea-missile-japan.html) reported, citing an unnamed South Korean Defense official. [Fumio Kishida's office tweeted](https://twitter.com/JPN_PMO/status/1588149599419920385).

Now, back to work. Here's what's on tap for the day: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is missile crazy, and he's also providing Russia with ammunition to fight ...

[speaks](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/27/vladimir-putin-speech-valdai-war/) at Moscow’s Valdai Discussion Club about his perception that Western dominance is eroding. [Imran Khan](https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-imran-khan-injured-d9f4bf37c30146fb8dbfce41ec102b97), was among those injured in eastern Pakistan today when a gunman opened fire on a campaign truck carrying the ex-leader and several of his supporters, leaving nine people wounded and one person dead. House of Representatives and 34 Senate seats are up for grabs in the U.S. Khan, who first made his name leading Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup, underwent emergency surgery in Lahore, Pakistan, and was seen with a bandage on his leg after the shooting. “If not, it will have to totally take the blame for all the consequences.” (The United States and South Korea decided to extend the exercises on Thursday amid the launches after a meeting between their defense chiefs in Washington.) Speaking of North Korea, the White House this week has also accused Pyongyang of covertly supplying Russia with a “significant” number of artillery shells to use in Ukraine. [27 missiles](https://www.voanews.com/a/japanese-ordered-to-take-shelter-after-north-korean-launch-/6817919.html#:~:text=North%20Korea%20has%20launched%20at,U.S.%2DSouth%20Korea%20military%20drills.) since Wednesday and fired off more than 100 artillery rounds in a less-than-subtle sign of its anger at U.S.-South Korea military exercises. “Our information indicates that they’re trying to obscure the method of supply by funneling them through other countries in the Middle East and North Africa,” White House national security spokesperson (And you know it has to be a major event in the sporting world to pique Robbie’s interest, though our editor—and resident baseball guru—isn’t all that impressed by a combined no-hitter, no matter the stage.) A new nuclear test would lay bare how few options Washington has left in its diplomatic playbook to try and convince North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. But the latest rounds of tests have jarred both Seoul and Washington, and analysts fear it could put both sides on a tit-for-tat escalatory response. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is missile crazy, and he’s also providing Russia with ammunition to fight Ukraine.