North Korea fires unidentified projectiles

New Delhi, 15,/9: North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the sea on Wednesday, according to the South’s military, days after Pyongyang said it had successfully tested new long-range cruise missiles.

The nuclear-armed North had “fired an unidentified projectile into the East Sea”, Seoul’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement to AFP.

No further details were immediately available, including the device type, how far it travelled, and whether more than one projectile was involved.

It came days after the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that it had test-fired a new “long-range cruise missile” over the weekend, calling it a “strategic weapon of great significance

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