Air raid sirens sounded on a South Korean island and residents evacuated to underground shelters after North Korea fired more than 20 missiles. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles.
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. South Korea says it issued an air raid alert for residents on an island off its eastern coast after North Korea fired missiles.
South Korea’s military said North Korea launched at least 23 missiles — 17 in the morning and six in the afternoon — off its its eastern and western coasts on Wednesday. It said the weapons were all short-range ballistic missiles or suspected surface-to-air missiles. 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.
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. South Korea’s military said the missiles landed in international waters at the same distance of 26 kilometers north of the sea border as the North Korean missile fell earlier Wednesday.
North Korean short-range weapons are designed to strike key facilities in South Korea, including U.S. military bases there. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called North Korea’s continuing missile tests “absolutely impermissible.”
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