Iran Press/ Asia: South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) on Thursday in a statement said that the projectiles were launched from the DPRK's eastern province of South Hamgyong towards the eastern waters around 5 PM local time, Yonhap reported.
According to JCS, the projectiles launched within a 30-second interval from a super-large multiple rocket launcher traveled about 380 km at a maximum altitude of some 97 km.
Thursday's launch took place on Thanksgiving morning in the US, and the symbolism might be significant. North Korea has previously conducted missile tests on important American holidays.
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Its first successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) came on July 4 -- US Independence Day -- in 2017. North Korean state media went on to call that launch part of a "package of gifts" for "American bastards."
It also comes almost exactly two years after North Korea test-fired its Hwasong-15 ICBM, which analysts believe could target much of the United States with a nuclear warhead.
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Those launches preceded the flurry of summit diplomacy between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump.
North Korea's missile test came after stalled nuclear talks with the US.
But nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington have essentially been on ice since early October when the two sides met in Stockholm. That ended abruptly and without any agreement, and North Korea would go on to conduct two missile tests later that month.
Washington and Seoul postponed military drills scheduled for mid-November in an attempt to convince North Korea to return to the negotiating table, but Pyongyang rebuffed those efforts and went ahead with its own drills.
The DPRK's test-firing came about a month after Pyongyang launched two projectiles into the eastern waters on Oct. 31. Pyongyang test-launched projectiles a total of 13 times this year.205
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