Seoul says North Korea fired three missiles

North Korea conducted the launch of three short-range missiles aimed at the east coast of the Korean Peninsula , as confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of South Korea. Official sources said the agency Yonhap  that two military rockets land left on Saturday morning and one afternoon. had as address the ocean. South Korea said it had "strengthened its security ". They also indicated that maintain"a high level of preparedness to deal with the evolution of any risk". During this month, as part of  joint military exercises the United States and South Korea  in the Yellow Sea waters, the North Korean Army  threatened to make "immediate counterattacks."  "The units of the KPA in the front southwest launch  immediate counterattacks in the event that a single projectile falls on the territorial waters of our side , "said the Commander of the North Korean armed forces in an office released Tuesday by the  state agency  KCNA. With his usual bellicose rhetoric, the North Korean military added that in the unlikely event that the Allies counterattack respond to that,  "all artillery forces become the five South Korean islands in the West Sea (Yellow Sea) in a sea of flames"  with their missiles.