The missile launch took place a few days after North Korea announced a test of its Purwasar 3-31 strategic cruise missile.
North Korea has launched several cruise missiles off its east coast and continues to conduct weapons tests, South Korean military officials said, drawing condemnation from the United States, South Korea and Japan.
The missile launch follows North Korea's test launch on Wednesday of the Purwasar 3-31 strategic cruise missile, which North Korea suggested could be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement on Sunday that it had detected several missiles in waters near North Korea's Sinpo port. At Sinpo Port, North Korea operates a shipyard that manufactures naval assets, including missile-launching submarines.
“While increasing surveillance and vigilance, our military is working closely with the United States to monitor new signs and activities from North Korea,” JCS said.
North Korea has stepped up its weapons tests in recent weeks, including launching what it describes as an “underwater nuclear weapons system” and solid-fuel hypersonic ballistic missiles.
North Korea is not prohibited from testing cruise missiles under U.N. sanctions that ban more advanced ballistic technology, but the launches further strained already strained relations with Washington, South Korea and Tokyo. There is a possibility of increasing it.
Despite international sanctions and condemnation, Kim has made significant progress in promoting his country's illegal ballistic missile program, which analysts claim has been enhanced by cooperation with Russia. There is.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said earlier this month that South Korea was his country's “main enemy” and that peaceful reunification of the peninsula was no longer possible.
In response to North Korea's test, the United States, South Korea, and Japan conducted expanded joint military exercises that Kim Jong-un has positioned as a rehearsal for an invasion.
North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency on Sunday condemned the exercise, declaring “merciless” results and warning that the country was “fully prepared for a deadly war.”