S. Korea's Navy retrieves debris of NK missile that flew over NLL last week

2024-10-10 15:03:58      点击：848

This photo, carried by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, shows the North Korean military conducting "military operations" with missile tests between Nov. 2 and 5 in response to large-scale joint aerial drills of South Korea and the United States, Nov. 7. Yonhap

South Korea's Navy said Monday it has retrieved a piece of the debris of a ballistic missile that North Korea fired southward last week past its de facto maritime border with the South in the East Sea.

"The South's Navy on Sunday collected what is presumed to be the debris of the North's short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) in waters south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL)," Col. Kim Jun-rak, spokesperson for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), said at a regular press briefing.

North Korea fired three SRBMs from its eastern coastal city of Wonsan on Wednesday, including one that landed near South Korea's territorial waters after flying over the NLL for the first time since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.

The Navy's Gwangyang salvage and rescue ship was dispatched to areas south of the NLL from Friday through Sunday, and retrieved the piece of debris using an unmanned underwater searching device, according to the JCS.

North Korea launched more than 30 ballistic missiles last week alone, including a presumed failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), amid growing speculation it may carry out a nuclear test in the near future. (Yonhap)