North Korea fires missiles as row over landmine blast intensifies

North Korea fired about 10 short-range ballistic missiles from the Wonsan area towards the Sea of Japan, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. The launch comes amid rising tensions over a landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone on September 21 that injured three South Korean soldiers. A joint South Korean-United Nations investigation concluded that North Korea had planted the mines more than a year earlier, but Pyongyang rejects the finding and accuses Seoul of fabricating the incident.