North Korea test-fires ballistic missile off east coast
By DW
24 October 2021 |
12:39 pm
The military in South Korea has said the projectile was a submarine-launched ballistic missile. It comes as intelligence chiefs from the US, South Korea and Japan meet in Seoul.
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