North Korea Fires Multiple Ballistic Missiles Amid Heightened Tensions

The missile launches took place just hours before the U.S. presidential election.
North Korea Fires Multiple Ballistic Missiles Amid Heightened Tensions
A man watches a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Nov. 5, 2024. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
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North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles into the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan early on Nov. 5.

Both South Korea and Japan reported the launches, in which missiles have landed outside Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).