An abortive North Korean missile fired on Monday may have endangered the nation's capital after the South's military said one of the rockets fell short of its intended target.The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said it detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired 10 minutes apart—at 5:05 and 5:15 a.m. local time—from the Jangyon area in North Korea's southwestern province of South Hwanghae.
Lee Sung Joon, a spokesperson for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, later told a press briefing that an analysis of the second launch was underway.North Korea and its state news outlets have yet to acknowledge the test-fire, but the isolated regime may have been attempting to repeat a precision strike demonstration it conducted some 15 months ago, according to early assessments by the South.