North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea.
 
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) said that the launch took place at 5:39 a.m. on Monday at a location near the eastern coastal city of Wonsan in Gangwon Province. 
 
The JCS said that the projectile appeared to be a variation of short-range Scud missile and it flew around 450 kilometers. 
 
The U.S. Pacific Command said that the North’s short-range ballistic missile flew some six minutes before landing in the East Sea. 
 
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that the projectile appeared to have dropped in the Japanese exclusive economic zone. 
 
The South Korean JCS said that the presidential office in Seoul was immediately informed of the situation
 
The National Security Council is holding an emergency session from 7.30 a.m to discuss the North's third ballistic missile launch since the inauguration of President Moon Jae-in in South Korea.
 
The launch comes eight days after North Korea fired a Pukguksong-2 medium-range ballistic missile(MRBM). Just a week before the test launch, North Korea fired a Hwasong-12 strategic missile. On Sunday, it reported it test launched a KN-06 surface-to-air missile.

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