North and South Korea Separately Test Ballistic Missiles

North Korea and South Korea yesterday tested ballistic missiles hours apart.

South Korea’s presidential office said in a statement that the country conducted its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test.

Those launches came two days after Pyongyang said it fired a newly developed cruise missile, its first weapons test in six months.

Experts say that the North Korean launches are an effort to apply pressure on the US in the hopes of winning relief from sanctions aimed at persuading it to abandon its nuclear arsenal.