Overview
- South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff detected roughly 10 rockets fired at about 3 p.m. Tuesday toward the northern waters of the Yellow Sea.
- The salvo was presumed to come from a 240mm multiple rocket launcher system that can put Seoul and nearby areas in range.
- Officials said the activity appears consistent with North Korea's regular winter military exercises that typically begin in December.
- North Korea has not commented, and the timing coincided with a ruling party central committee meeting led by Kim Jong Un to set policy and plan a party congress.
- Seoul said it is closely monitoring under a combined South Korea–U.S. defense posture, noting recent similar salvos were timed near a DMZ visit by U.S. and South Korean defense chiefs and talks between President Lee Jae Myung and China's Xi Jinping.