North Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles

The missiles lifted off from Kaechon, north of the capital Pyongyang, around 6:50 am in a northeast direction and flew about 400 km (249 miles)

North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday toward its east coast, South Korea and Japan said, days after Pyongyang unveiled a uranium enrichment facility and vowed to beef up its nuclear arsenal.

The missiles lifted off from Kaechon, north of the capital Pyongyang, around 6:50 am in a northeast direction and flew about 400 km (249 miles), South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, without specifying how many were fired and where they landed.