The launches came hours after North Korea issued a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to 'pay the most horrible price in history.'
Air raid sirens sounded in South Korea after the North fired about a dozen missiles in its direction Wednesday, at least one of them landing near the rivals' tense sea border. to get the U.S. and South Korea to"pay the most horrible price in history" as it has intensified its fiery rhetoric targeting the ongoing large-scale military drills between its rivals.
The landing site is in international waters, but still far south of the extension of the nations' border. South Korea's military said it was the first time a North Korean missile had landed so close to the sea border since the countries' division in 1948. The North Korean missile's landing site is also 167 kilometers northwest of South Korea's Ulleung island, where an air raid alert was then issued.
In a statement released early Wednesday, Pak Jong Chon, a secretary of the ruling Workers' Party who is considered a close confidant of leader Kim Jong Un, called the so-called Vigilant Storm air force drills"aggressive and provocative." South Korea's military has warned North Korea that using its nuclear weapons would put it on a"path of self-destruction."
U.S. and South Korean officials have steadfastly said their drills are defensive in nature and that they have no intentions of attacking North Korea.
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