A top South Korean general called for a joint response to North Korea's military support for Russia at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meeting this week, describing it as a "big" threat to the international community,

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday didn’t immediately confirm how many missiles were fired or how far they flew.

The top military officers of South Korea and Australia held phone talks Monday and concurred on the need to expand cooperation, such as combined drills and personnel exchange, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

South Korea's military says North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles eastward on Tuesday morning. It was the North's second ballistic missile launch in just over a week.

North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the East Sea on Monday, South Korea's military said, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Seoul amid a political crisis in the country.

Eight days after Pyongyang launched a hypersonic ballistic missile, it fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the sea.

North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, marking Pyongyang's latest show of force just days ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's return to office.

North Korea on Monday fired its first ballistic missile of the year into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, just two weeks ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. The launch was confirmed by South Korean and Japanese authorities, though Pyongyang has yet to provide details.

A first attempt this month ended in a dramatic standoff at the residence where President Yoon Suk Yeol had been holed up since he was impeached.

The latest missile test coincided with Takeshi Iwaya’s visit, the first by a Japanese foreign minister in seven years, to Seoul for talks on trilateral cooperation with the US. Mr Iwaya met his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae Yul on Monday. He condemned the North’s nuclear and missile development, and pledged to boost security ties with Seoul.

North Korea launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Tuesday, in its latest show of force a week before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that the missiles flew approximately 250 kilometers after being launched at around 9:30 a.