Acting President Choi Sang-mok has pledged a firm response to North Korea’s provocations based on the South Korea-U.S. alliance, after the North fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Tuesday. 

Choi made the pledge during a Cabinet meeting in Seoul, condemning the North’s latest missile test as a “clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions.” 

The acting president said the government will respond more sternly to the North’s provocations, based on a strong defense posture and the solid South Korea-U.S. alliance.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Tuesday morning, eight days after firing what it claimed was a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile.