North Korea fires missile barrage toward the sea as tensions with South rise

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Kim, H. j. (2026, October 29). North Korea fires missile barrage toward the sea as tensions with South rise. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/asia/north-korea-launches-an-unidentified-projectile-off-its-east-coast-south-korea-says/article_49e37603-9d8a-52f9-8184-b2ff64b4bdbb.html

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-29 · by Hyung-jin Kim

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North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday, according to South Korea's military. This action comes amid escalating tensions between the two nations; earlier in the week, North Korea had threatened to restart propaganda loudspeakers at the border and deploy additional weaponry near contested areas.

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On October 29, 2026, North Korea launched around a dozen short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast toward the Sea of Japan, escalating tensions with South Korea. This missile barrage came just days after North Korea threatened to resume front-line propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts and deploy new weapons along their shared border. The launches were detected by both South Korean and Japanese military agencies, increasing animosity between the two Koreas following landmine explosions near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that injured three South Korean soldiers on September 21. Seoul has proposed talks to ease these tensions but has not yet received a response from Pyongyang.

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