North Korea fired a volley of shots into the sea using multiple rocket launchers Tuesday, in an apparent show of force to coincide with South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises, South Korean officials said.
Before noon, the North fired three shots using a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), a high-mobility automatic launcher capable of firing surface-to-surface rockets, the South's Defense Ministry said.
The projectiles were launched from the North's eastern port of Wonsan and flew 55 km into the Sea of Japan, it said.