North Korea fires short-range missiles into East Sea

By Omer Faruk Yildiz</p> <p>SEOUL (AA) – North Korea fired unidentified short-range missiles in the direction of the East Sea on Saturday, according to South Korea’s state-run Yonhap News Agency. </p> <p>Yonhap cited South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff as saying the North “fired multiple rounds of unidentified missiles from its east coast town of Wonsan in the northeastern direction between 9:06 a.m. and 9:27 a.m. today&quot;.</p> <p>The incident comes more than a year after the country fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in late November 2017.</p> <p>South Korean and U.S. authorities are analyzing the details of the launch, the agency said.