Another day, another launch.<br />It's now three in a couple of weeks, and two within the past 48 hours ALONE.<br />North Korea lobbed multiple unidentified projectiles into the East Sea a few hours ago.<br />This comes just two days after the regime fired two short-range ballistic missiles early Wednesday morning.<br />Arirang News' Hong Yoo on live on the line.<br />Yoo, what do we know so far?<br /><br />Connyoung, as you said North Korea fired two as yet unidentified short-range projectiles off its east coast with South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff saying the launches happened at 2:59 AM and 3:23 AM, local time, from the North's Hamgyeongnam-do Province.<br />No details have been released about how far they flew.<br />According to U.S. officials, the projectiles seem to be similar to those launched in the previous tests by Pyeongyang.<br />They said it's unclear how many had been launched, but they did not pose a threat to the U.S.<br />U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday local time that he was not worried about the launches because they were short-range and very standard missiles.<br />Reuters reports it was unclear if he was referring to Friday's launches, but said Trump appeared to be downplaying the regime's recent launches in general.<br />South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it's closely monitoring for any additional launches and maintaining a readiness posture.<br />This is the third missile test by North Korea since Kim Jong-un and President Trump met at the inter-Korean border last month and agreed to revive denuclearization talks.<br />We should be getting more details during the day.<br />Connyoung, back to you.<br />
