North Korea fired an unidentified projectile toward the sea off its east coast on Wednesday (April 8, 2026), South Korea’s military said, following a separate launch detected a day earlier as Pyongyang doused Seoul’s hopes of an easing in tensions.
South Korea’s military separately said it had detected the launch of a suspected ballistic missile from the Pyongyang area in North Korea on Tuesday (April 7, 2026).
South Korean and U.S. authorities were analysing the launch, it said.
According to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing military officials, the projectile launched on Tuesday flew eastward before showing signs of an abnormality in the early stage of flight and disappearing.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff is leaning towards the possibility that the object was a ballistic missile, in what could amount to a failure after launch, Yonhap reported.
