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North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles Saturday, Seoul said, a day after South Korea concluded five days of joint maritime drills with the United States and Japan that were focused on the North.
Pyongyang last month slammed plans for the so-called Freedom Edge joint exercises in international waters off South Korea as a “threat” to North Korea and other countries of the region.
On Saturday, Seoul’s military detected “multiple short-range ballistic missiles launched from the Wonsan area toward the East Sea,” also known as Sea of Japan, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
