Another day, another launch.
It's now three in a couple of weeks, and two within the past 48 hours ALONE.
North Korea lobbed multiple unidentified projectiles into the East Sea a few hours ago.
This comes just two days after the regime fired two short-range ballistic missiles early Wednesday morning.
Arirang News' Hong Yoo on live on the line.
Yoo, what do we know so far?
Connyoung, as you said North Korea fired two as yet unidentified short-range projectiles off its east coast with South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff saying the launches happened at 2:59 AM and 3:23 AM, local time, from the North's Hamgyeongnam-do Province.
No details have been released about how far they flew.
According to U.S. officials, the projectiles seem to be similar to those launched in the previous tests by Pyeongyang.
They said it's unclear how many had been launched, but they did not pose a threat to the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday local time that he was not worried about the launches because they were short-range and very standard missiles.
Reuters reports it was unclear if he was referring to Friday's launches, but said Trump appeared to be downplaying the regime's recent launches in general.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it's closely monitoring for any additional launches and maintaining a readiness posture.
This is the third missile test by North Korea since Kim Jong-un and President Trump met at the inter-Korean border last month and agreed to revive denuclearization talks.
We should be getting more details during the day.
Connyoung, back to you.
