SEOUL: North Korea fired three short-range projectiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, two days after the North threatened to take “momentous” action to protest outside condemnation over its earlier live-fire exercises.

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the multiple kinds of projectiles fired from the eastern coastal town of Sondok flew as far as 200 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 50 kilometers before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

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