North Korea has fired four ballistic 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 military said that South Korean and the U.S. military authorities are working on identifying the projectiles.
 
Experts are predicting that the missiles are the mid-range Nodong or a variation of the Scud-ER missile.
 
While some of the projectiles flew around one-thousand kilometers, the Japanese government said three of the four missiles were dropped off in its exclusive economic zone.
 
The South Korean military monitored the flight of the projectiles 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 missiles, saying that new strategic weapons will soon be launched following the Pukguksong-2 missile launch last month.
 
The South Korean presidential office has convened the National Security Council.
 
At the meeting that began at 9:00 a.m. at the presidential office's underground bunker, Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn, presidential chief of staff, director of the National Intelligence Service, as well as, defense, foreign and unification ministers are discussing response measures to the latest provocation.

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