North Korea launched another missile this morning into the East Sea.
This was the regime's 11th launch this year, and it's believed it was fired from a submarine.
Kim Ji-yeon has more.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff has confirmed that North Korea fired a ballistic missile from waters near the eastern port
city of Wonsan in North Korea's Kangwon-do Province.
The missile was fired in an easterly direction at 7:11AM Wednesday.
The maximum flight altitude was some 910 kilometers... and the flight distance was around 450 kilometers.
The Joint Chiefs identified the launch as a "Pukguksong-type" missile.
During an emergency meeting, the National Security Council voiced grave concerns saying the North may be developing a submarine-based ballistic missile... at a time Pyeongyang and Washington are preparing for working-level talks.
Submarine-based ballistic missiles are believed to be more threatening than missiles fired from land since the launch site is harder to detect in advance.
It's believed the North is developing a Pukguksong-three missile and submarines of more than 3-thousand tons... and that the recent launch could have been planned in advance... regardless of progress on denuclearization talks.
The North had fired Pukguksong-one missiles three times from submarines in 2016... and fired a Pukguksong-two missile from land in 2017.
Rather than one missile, Japan-based NHK reported that the North launched two ballistic missiles on Wednesday.
Citing Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, it reported that one of the missiles landed outside Japan's exclusive economic zone in the East Sea and the other one landed near Shimane Prefecture.
On the discrepancy between the Joint Chiefs and Tokyo... it's believed the missile may have separated in mid-air.
Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News.