North Korea launches multiple ground-to-ship missiles

North Korea has launched multiple surface-to-ship missiles today. South Korea's Defence ministry said North Korea today fired multiple unidentified projectiles, assumed to be surface-to-ship missiles from the vicinity of Wonsan, Gangwon Province. 

It would be the fourth missile test by the nuclear-armed regime in less than five weeks, as Pyongyang continues to defy UN warnings and US threats of possible military action. Early last month, the North test-fired its longest-range ballistic



missile yet tested, in a bid to bring the US mainland within reach. 

Pyongyance also carried out two atomic tests and dozens of missile launches since the beginning of last year.

The UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a US-drafted resolution imposing new targeted sanctions on a handful of North Korean officials and entities, in response to a series of ballistic missile tests this year that are banned under UN resolutions.