Tensions Rise As Both North And South Korea Carry Out Missile Launches

South Korea on Wednesday fired missiles across the country’s de facto maritime border with North Korea after a ballistic missile launched by Pyongyang’s forces landed near its coast, as tensions in the peninsula remain high over the ongoing U.S.-South Korea joint military drills in the region.

North Korea fired nearly a dozen ballistic missiles on Wednesday, one of which flew towards the South Korean island of Ulleung and triggered air raid sirens, Yonhap news reported.

The missile eventually landed more than 100 miles away from the island, but South Korea’s military noted it was only 35 miles from the country’s east coast and well past the demarcated maritime border between the countries known as the Northern Limit Line (NLL).

In response, South Korean fighter jets fired three precision-guided missiles across the NLL, all of which landed in the East Sea.