North Korea Fires 2 Missiles After US Submarine Arrives in South Korea

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on July 19, 2023. Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images

TOKYO—North Korea launched two ballistic missiles eastward early on Wednesday, Japan’s and South Korea’s militaries said, just hours after a U.S. ballistic missile submarine arrived in a South Korean port for the first time in four decades.

Both of the missiles appeared to have fallen outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, the Japanese Defense Ministry said.