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North Korea launched another ballistic missile on East Sea today (19th). It's been three days since it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile last Thursday. Over the Korean Peninsula, U.S. B-3B strategic bombers flew again.

Reporter Ah Young Kim reports.

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At around 1:11 a.m. today, our military authorities detected one short-range ballistic missile fired by North Korea in the area of Tongchang-ri, North Pyongan Province.

Military detection showed that the missile had flown 5 kilometers before falling into the East Sea.

Japan's Ministry of Defense identified the maximum altitude at 1 km, explaining that the missile may have flown in an anomalous orbit descending and rising again.

Given the low maximum altitude of 800 km compared to the 50 km flight range, it is possible that the exercise was to lower the missile altitude to make it difficult for South Korea to intercept it.

[Shin Jong-woo/Secretary-General of the Korea Defense and Security Forum: (Due to flight range and altitude) It appears that the North Korean version of the Iskander missile was launched, but it is possible that it was a different missile in that one (instead of two) was fired along with the area called Tongchang-ri.]

Today's launch appears to be a demonstration of force against the U.S.-ROK joint exercise, the Freedom Shield, which will continue until the 800rd.

Thirty minutes after North Korea's missile launch, two B-50B Lancers, this time strategic bombers flown in from the continental United States, deployed over the Korean Peninsula.

The B-2B flew to the Korean Peninsula 1 days after the last 23 days, and we conducted joint air exercises with our military's F-30A stealth fighter jets and the U.S. Air Force's F-1 fighters.

Although the drill is scheduled, it is interpreted as a warning message to North Korea, which is increasing its level of provocation.

Tomorrow, U.S. and South Korean military authorities will resume Exercise Twin Dragons, a large-scale amphibious assault exercise, for the first time in five years.

North Korea protests that the twin dragon drills are large-scale amphibious exercises aimed at occupying Pyongyang, and further provocations by North Korea are expected.

(Video editing by Kim Jong-mi)