North Korea Fires 23 Missiles
North Korea Fires 23 Missiles, Raising Tensions Tensions rose in the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday while the two Koreas test-fired missiles one after another in a series of tit-for-tat moves. North Korea fired a total of 23 missiles that were a combination of ballistic and surface-to-air weapons. The tests included four short-range ballistic missiles fired at 6:51 a.m. local time from its North Pyongan Province into the West Sea. Two hours later, the North fired three short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) one of which landed in the waters below south of the NLL, or North Limit Line. “This is the first time since the two Koreas split that a ballistic missile fell close to our waters, south of the NLL,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a written statement. The missile fell 104 miles northwest of South Korea’s Ulleung island, triggering an air raid alert which forced the island’s 9,000 residents to evacuate to underground shelters. The North soon after