North Korea has fired multiple missiles into the East Sea.
 
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said that it detected the launch at around 7:36 a.m. Monday from North Korea's Dongchang-ri missile site on the Yellow Sea coast.
 
The South Korean military is working on identifying the projectile, analyzing its flight course. An official said that multiple projectiles were launched without clarifying exactly how many. 

While some of projectiles are said to have flown around one-thousand kilometers, the Japanese government said three of the four missiles were dropped off in Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
 
The South Korean military monitored the flight of the projectile using its Green Pine radar and other radar systems on naval Aegis vessels in the East Sea. 
 
The launch came on the sixth day of South Korea and the U.S.'s joint Foal Eagle military exercise. The General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army issued a statement Thursday of last week, threatening to take stern response measures against the military drills in the South.
 
The following day, the North Korean ruling party gazette Rodong Sinmun hinted at a possible test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, saying that new strategic weapons will soon be launched following the Pukguksong-2 missile launch last month.

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