North Korea Fires 4 Projectiles Into Sea; South Korea on Alert

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 Feb. 27, 2022. Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images

In its latest move that could ramp up tension on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea on March 20 fired four projectiles into the Yellow Sea, South Korean military officials said.

The launches were from an unspecified location in western North Korea and fell into the sea off the nation’s west coast during a span of an hour around 7:20 a.m. local time, according to officials, Yonhap News Agency reported.