Anchor: North Korea fired another ballistic missile over Japan into the Pacific Ocean Friday morning. In response to the provocation, the South Korean military immediately fired Hyunmoo-2 ballistic missiles into the East Sea, seeking to prove its capability to strike the North Korean launch site. 
Park Jong-hong has the details.
 
Report: The projectile was fired from the Sunan airfield in the North Korean capital Pyongyang around 7 a.m. Friday.

It soared as high as some 770 kilometers and flew some three-thousand-700 kilometers over Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido before falling into the Pacific Ocean. 

South Korean and U.S. military authorities have since presented an initial assessment that the projectile was an intermediate range ballistic missile(IRBM).
 
Just ten minutes after the missile launch in the North, the South Korean military sought to prove its capability to strike the missile base in North Korea. 

[Sound bite: Hyunmoo-2 ballistic missile exercise (Sep. 15)]

[Sound bite: Roh Jae-cheon –Spokesman, S. Korean Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (Korean)]
"With the approval of the president, our military conducted a live-fire of the Hyunmoo-2 ballistic missile on the east coast, having considered the actual distance to North Korea's Sunan airport, which is the site of North Korea's provocation."

JCS spokesman Col. Roh Jae-cheon told reporters that the Hyunmoo-2 missiles flew some 250 kilometers, or the same distance between the South Korean launch site and the Sunan airfield from which the North Korean missile was fired.

Just 17 days ago, North Korea fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile from the same launch site. It flew over Japan in a direct challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump's “fire and fury” warning.

After that, Pyongyang proceeded with its sixth nuclear test to which the UN Security Council responded by slapping tougher sanctions on the North, cutting oil supply to the regime by about 30 percent.
Park Jong-hong, KBS World Radio News. 

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