North Korea fires more missiles, seventh launch in two weeks

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Sunday, October 9, 2022. - AFP

Seoul, Oct 9, 2022 (AFP): North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea early Sunday, Seoul's military said, the seventh such launch in two weeks, just hours after a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier wrapped up joint drills off the Korean peninsula.

Seoul, Tokyo and Washington have ramped up combined naval exercises in recent weeks, infuriating Pyongyang, which sees them as rehearsals for invasion and justifies its blitz of missile launches as necessary "countermeasures".