Yonhap News Agency
North Korea fired three unidentified projectiles into the East Sea on Monday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, a week after the communist regime fired two short-range projectiles. The projectiles were fired northeastward from areas near its eastern town of Sondok in South Hamgyong Province, the JCS said in a brief release.
“Our military is monitoring the situation in case there are additional launches and maintaining a readiness posture,” the JCS said.
Sondok is where the North conducted the first known test of its super-large multiple rocket launcher in August 2019. So far, it has tested the system five times, including the one conducted on March 2, when the North fired two projectiles as part of its artillery strike drill for a wintertime exercise.
Monday’s projectile fire could be another test of the system, possibly to reduce the interval between launches ahead of operational deployment, according to experts and military sources.
