<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/north-korea" rel="" target="" title="North Korea"><span>North Korea</span></a><span> launched multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea on Sunday, its neighbours said, the North’s latest weapons testing activity this year.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launches happened on Sunday morning from the North’s eastern Sinpo area.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It said South Korea has bolstered its surveillance posture and is closely exchanging information with the US and Japan.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>South Korea's presidential office said its National Security Council plans to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the launches.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/north-korean-leader-kim-and-his-daughter-try-out-new-pistols-at-shooting-range/6e174a14-b28d-4f82-81c8-4243a3315ef9"><strong><span>Leather-clad Kim shows off his 'excellent' small gun arsenal</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Japan’s Defense Ministry also detected the launches, saying the weapons were believed to have landed in the waters off North Korea's east coast.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It said Tokyo strongly protested to Pyongyang, saying Sunday's launches threaten regional and international peace and violated UN Security Council resolutions that bans any ballistic activities by North Korea.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/north-korea-launches-ballistic-missiles-toward-sea/2071df0f-3a98-439a-8f18-1cb4dd4431ec" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Last week, North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un supervised missile tests from the country’s destroyer.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/two-people-charged-over-sydney-gangland-shootings/ddbca82b-b02a-4d6c-975b-0d99f6b5f71a" rel="" target="" title="Two charged over shootings in south-western Sydney"><strong><span>Two charged over shootings in south-western Sydney</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After the test, Kim said his government remained focused on the “limitless expansion” of its nuclear forces and issued unspecified new tasks to sharpen the country’s nuclear attack and rapid-response capabilities.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi said last week that his agency has confirmed “a rapid increase” in activities at nuclear facilities in North Korea.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-iran-war-pope-says-he-does-not-want-to-debate-trump/21fb3d46-929f-42c8-babf-246cc6dc5ea6"><strong><span>Pope rejects claims of feud with Trump over Iran war</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div>