North Korea test-launches a ballistic missile toward the sea, South Korea says

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea test-launched a ballistic rocket toward nan North’s eastbound waters connected Thursday, South Korea's subject said.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said successful a short connection nan motorboat happened connected Thursday greeting but gave nary further specifications specified arsenic really acold nan limb flew.

The reported motorboat happened a time aft South Korea’s subject intelligence agency told lawmakers that North Korea has apt completed preparations for its seventh atomic trial and was adjacent to test-firing a long-range rocket tin of reaching nan United States.

Since 2022, North Korea has sharply accrued nan gait of its weapons tests to grow its arsenal of nuclear-capable missiles targeting South Korea and nan United States.

The motorboat besides comes amid concerns astir North Korea’s reported unit dispatch to Russia to support its warfare against Ukraine.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms and carrying Russian instrumentality are moving toward Ukraine, successful what he called a vulnerable and destabilizing development. Austin said astatine a property convention successful Washington pinch South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun.

South Korea said Wednesday that North Korea has sent much than 11,000 troops to Russia and that much than 3,000 of them person been moved adjacent to battlefields successful Western Russia.