North Korea fires cruise missiles

Soaring: A TV screen showing a file image of North Korea’s missile launch during a news programme at the Seoul Railway Station in South Korea. — AP

North Korea fired several cruise missiles yesterday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a series of tension-raising moves by the nuclear-armed state.

The launch comes just days after Pyongyang fired multiple cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea, which it said was a first test of a new generation of strategic cruise missiles.