North Korea fires another 30 short-range missiles into sea

North Korea fired another 30 missiles into the ocean on Saturday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, the latest in a series of launches that have provoked criticism from Seoul and Washington.

The short-range missiles are estimated to have flown about 60 km and were fired between 4 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. from the North’s east coast into the Sea of Japan.

Analysts said the missiles were launched from the same location as 25 projectiles on Sunday, near the eastern port of Wonsan. The projectiles were Soviet-era short-range Frog missiles from the 1960s, they said.

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