The United States and South Korea conducted four missile launches Tuesday, the second round of test firings in less than 24 hours, done in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japanese islands on Tuesday (local time), CNN reports.
Hours after North Korea fired its missile Tuesday morning, the US and South Korea conducted an exercise off the west coast of the Korean peninsula in which a South Korean F-15K fighter jet fired to air-to-surface missiles at a pre-determined “virtual target” in the sea.
The latter test firing involved four missiles from the ATACMS system, a mobile surface-to-surface missile launcher that can hit a target up to 200 miles away.