North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Into Sea

Report according to Reuters - North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Friday that flew about 800 km (500 miles) off its east coast into the sea, South Korea‘s military said, days after fresh U.S. sanctions were imposed on the isolated state.

South Korea‘s Yonhap news agency said the missile was likely a medium-range Rodong-missile.
The launch comes amid heightened tension on the Korean peninsula with the North remaining defiant in the face of the U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed earlier in the month in response to a nuclear test conducted in January.

The missile was launched from an area near the west coast north of the capital, Pyongyang, flying across the peninsular and into the sea off the east coast early Friday morning, the South’s Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

It did not confirm the type of the missile. But 800 km was likely beyond the range of most short-range missiles in the North‘s arsenal.