South Korea's military: North Korea fires several missiles. USA and South Korea have expanded military cooperation.
Tensions on the peninsula have increased significantly again. The United States and its allies South Korea and Japan are directly threatened by the country's nuclear weapons and missile programs. North Korea is prohibited by UN resolutions from launching or even testing ballistic missiles, which, depending on their design, can be equipped with a nuclear warhead. The largely isolated country's renewed missile tests came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in South Korea.