(AFP) -{ North Korea fired seven surface-to-air missiles into the sea off its east coast on Thursday in an operation supervised by leader Kim Jong-Un at a time of heightened military tensions, South Korea’s Defence Ministry said Friday.}<\/p>\n
A ministry spokesman said Kim was understood to have been on hand when the rockets were fired early Thursday evening from a site near the eastern town of Sondok.<\/p>\n
The exercise came at a time of elevated tensions with North Korea’s condemnation of annual US-South Korea military drills that Pyongyang views as rehearsals for invasion.<\/p>\n
“We see this as another show of force by the North related to the exercises,” the spokesman told AFP.<\/p>\n
One of the joint drills, Key Resolve, wound up Friday, but the other, Foal Eagle, is set to continue until April 24.<\/p>\n
The annual exercises are always a particularly testing time for relations between the two Koreas, who remain technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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