North Korea launched a series of short-range ballistic missiles from Wonsan toward the East Sea. [1] Yonhap filed South Korea's Joint Chiefs detecting the launches around 5:20 a.m. KST, with the missiles flying about 250 kilometers before landing in the water. [1] Coverage filed it as a response to trilateral Freedom Edge drills by Japan, South Korea, and the United States. [2]

A test series is not a war. Do not invent a range over Japan if the file left the splash in the East Sea. Print Wonsan. Print 250 kilometers as Yonhap's number. Leave a mapped trajectory blank where the file left it blank.

Yonhap counted this as North Korea's 13th ballistic launch of 2026 and the first in about three weeks. [1] A 13th is a count. It is not an invasion. U.S. command language in the Saturday stack said the event posed no immediate threat to U.S. personnel, territory, or allies. [1] Print that sentence as command language. Do not upgrade it to an all-clear for the peninsula.

KCNA's later write-up of a joint firepower drill is not Saturday's hour. Saturday has Seoul's detection and the Hindu wrap. [2] Print the launches. Leave Pyongyang's confirmation to the edition that owns a confirmation.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing