CNN: North Korea Fires Two More Missiles, Marking Sixth Launch in 12 Days

‘The U.S. responding with a joint exercise’

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LIEBERMANN: “On the North Korean peninsula, messages over the 38th parallel have been conveyed in a show of military force. North Korea test launching two more ballistic missiles and the U.S. responding. Sending two warships to the region for ballistic missile defense drills with south korea and Japan after the latest launches. South korea says the exercises focused on the defection, tracking, and interception of future North Korean missiles. According to a CNN count, North Korea has launched ballistic missiles six times in the last two weeks. Most were short range ballistic missiles. One launch earlier this week was an intermediate range missile that flew over Japan. The first time that’s happened in five years. And this morning, kim jong-un flying fighters and bombers for an exercise near the South Korean border causing them to scramble their own fighters in response.”

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