North Korea fired its fourth barrage of cruise missiles in some two weeks, a move that came just hours after leader Kim Jong Un called for stepping up ¡°war preparations¡± during a visit to a naval shipyard.
Multiple cruise missiles were fired toward waters off North Korea¡¯s west coast at around 11 a.m. Friday, South Korea¡¯s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to reporters. U.S. and South Korean intelligence authorities were analyzing the test, it said. Kim¡¯s regime usually releases information about the launches a day after the fact.
The North Korean leader inspected warships being built at the Nampho Dockyard on the country¡¯s west coast, the official Korean Central News Agency reported earlier. He was on hand to see the test late last month of a new cruise missile designed to be fired from a submarine and also inspected a nuclear-powered submarine his state is trying to build.
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