North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile toward Sea of Japan: South Korea

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, South Korea's military said, the first such launch in about a week.The Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile was fired from the Wonsan area in Kangwon Province on the North's eastern coast at around 10:48 a.m., flew about 240 kilometers at the speed of about Mach 4 and reached an altitude of about 47 km.The launch came after North Korea warned earlier in the day that it will take "fiercer" military actions if the United States continues to stick to its campaign of offering extended deterrence to its regi…READ FULL ARTICLE