Ballistic missile fired by North Korea enters sea off the peninsula

While a US aircraft carrier is in South Korea for joint military exercises in response to the North's escalating nuclear threat, the North fired a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern seas on Sunday, continuing a provocative streak in weapons testing.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said that a missile fired from the western interior town of Taechon traveled 600 kilometers across the country at a maximum altitu....