North Korea fires unidentified projectile toward sea off east coast
North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile, Seoul's military said Saturday, a day after Pyongyang called the South "despicable" for demanding an apology over a DMZ blast that wounded three of its soldiers.
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- Published Date: 02:22 AM 03 October 2026
North Korea fired an unidentified projectile toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
The launch came after Pyongyang's Kim Yo Jong, powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, issued a statement on Friday that dismissed Seoul's demand for an apology for North Korean mines that seriously wounded South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarised Zone, a heavily fortified area between the two Koreas.
South Korea said this week North Korean mines caused the blast that seriously injured two South Korean soldiers on a reconnaissance mission inside the 4-km-wide (2.5-mile) border that stretches across the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea has sharply ramped up hostility against the South in recent years, disavowing unification as a national goal and calling South Korea its "primary foe."
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