In a tit-for-tat move, South Korea also fired a ballistic missile, the military said Friday, two days after North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the military fired a Hyunmoo-II surface-to-surface ballistic missile into the Yellow Sea on Thursday.

South Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile into the Yellow Sea on Thursday in a live-fire military exercise. This is a response to a recent series of missile launches from North Korea, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

North Korea has fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles towards the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military said on Tuesday. North Korea launched the missiles at about 7:30 am (2230 GMT Monday) from the western province of North Hwanghae,

South Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea in a show of force after North Korea's recent salvo of missile launches, Seoul said Friday.

South Korea's military successfully tested the Hyunmoo-II missile, simulating a precision strike against enemy missile launch sites.

South Korea fired a Hyunmoo-II surface-to-surface ballistic missile into the Yellow Sea this week in a show of force after North Korea's recent series of missile launches, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Friday.

The South Korean Missile Strategy Command fired a Hyunmoo-2 missile from South Chungcheong Province, about 65 miles southwest of Seoul, to demonstrate the command’s ability to make “precision strikes against the enemy’s origin of provocation,