North Korea launches another ballistic missile as US, South Korea prepare for military drills

North Korea launched different ballistic rocket Tuesday, marking its 2nd reported ballistic rocket motorboat successful little than a week.

Japan’s premier minister’s bureau announced the latest motorboat Tuesday. Details astir the missile’s trajectory, scope and wherever it landed were not instantly available.

The U.S. subject said it was monitoring the motorboat and consulting with allies and partners successful the region.

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North Korean person Kim Jong Un watches a sea-to-surface strategical cruise rocket trial from the destroyer successful an representation released by North Korean authorities media. (KCNA via KNS / AFP via Getty Images, File)

"We are alert of the caller rocket motorboat and are consulting intimately with our allies and partners. Based connected existent assessments, these events bash not airs an contiguous menace to U.S. unit oregon territory, oregon to our allies," U.S. Pacific Command said successful a statement. "The United States remains committed to the defence of the U.S. homeland and our allies successful the region."

The latest motorboat comes little than a week aft North Korea test-fired a short-range ballistic rocket from its eastbound Wonsan country connected Aug. 5.

That rocket landed successful waters disconnected North Korea’s eastbound seashore and did not scope Japanese territory, Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said pursuing the launch.

Koizumi said North Korea’s repeated rocket launches airs a menace to Japan and the region, and Tokyo lodged a protestation with Pyongyang done their embassies successful Beijing.

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North Korea test-fired a short-range ballistic rocket connected Aug. 5. The Hwasong-11LA ground-to-ground tactical short-range ballistic rocket is seen being test-fired astatine an undisclosed determination connected April 19, 2026, according to the Korean Central News Agency. (KCNA/Reuters)

South Korea’s subject bolstered its surveillance posture and coordinated with the U.S. and Japan pursuing the Aug. 5 launch, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

South Korea’s statesmanlike nationalist information assembly called that motorboat "a provocation" that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions and urged North Korea to halt its rocket activity.

The launches travel up of yearly associated subject exercises betwixt the U.S. and South Korea, which are typically held during the 2nd fractional of August.

"This yearly workout aims to physique knowing betwixt Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Korea, the United Nations Command, and ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), ROK authorities agency, ensuring their quality to fortify the combined defence posture and heighten Alliance effect capabilities against a spectrum of information threats," United States Forces Korea has said of the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises.

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U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division enactment successful a stream crossing workout arsenic portion of the Ulchi Freedom Shield workout past year, successful Yeoju-gun, South Korea. (Getty Images, File)

"It volition diagnostic live, virtual, constructive and field-based training, engaging unit from the assorted subject services," it added.

U.S. and South Korean officials person said the grooming is antiaircraft successful nature, portion North Korea has characterized the exercises arsenic mentation for an penetration and has often responded to subject drills with rocket tests.

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The Aug. 5 trial was North Korea’s archetypal ballistic rocket motorboat since precocious June, erstwhile it tested a tactical ballistic rocket carrying what authorities media described arsenic a "special mission" warhead on with different weapons.

North Korean person Kim Jong Un said pursuing those tests that his subject needed to bolster its "deadly and destructive violative posture."

Fox News Digital's Greg Norman-Diamond contributed to this report.