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N Korea fires multiple cruise missiles towards East Sea
NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: North Korea fired multiple unidentified cruise missiles, according to a report in South Korean state media on Thursday morning.
The multiple cruise missiles were fired toward the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, according to South Korea's JCS, the Yonhap news outlet reported.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the launches at about 9 am from the Sondok area in South Hamgyong Province, noting that South Korean and US intelligence authorities are conducting a detailed analysis.
Pyongyang had on May 8 fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea as per Yonhap.
Meanwhile, North Korean state-run media reported a major accident at a launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer.
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, termed the mishap a "criminal act".
The incident occured at a shipyard in the port of Chongjin, the 5,000-ton destroyer lost balance while on a flatcar, crushing some lower sections and preventing it from leaving the shipway, the official Korean Central News Agency said on Thursday, as cited by Yonhap
Kim who was present at the launch said the accident caused by "absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism which is out of the bounds of possibility" led "the dignity and self-respect of our state to a collapse in a moment," KCNA reported.
According to the South Korean military, the destroyer remains partially capsized.
