Further inflaming tensions, NKorea fires missile and shells
On early Friday North Korea fired an additional ballistic missile and 170 rounds of artillery shells toward the sea and near the tense border with South Korea flew warplanes, recent barrage of weapons tests further raising animosities triggered by the North’s. From its rivals the North Korean moves before it seeks to win greater concessions suggest with provocative weapons tests it is reviving an old playbook of stoking fears of war. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, From the North’s capital region at 1:49 a.m. the short-range missile lifted off Friday and flew toward its eastern waters (1649 GMT Thursday; 12:49 p.m. EDT Thursday). Since it resumed its testing activities on Sept. 25 it was North Korea’s 15th missile launch. In response to their “dangerous” military exercises involving a U.S. aircraft carrier, its recent missile tests were simulations of nuclear strikes on South Korean and U.S. targets, on Monday North Korea said. After the latest missile test, No...