North Korea fires two more missiles into the Sea of Japan

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Thursday. The launch came just two days after a missle that was launched over Japan and set off anti-aircraft alarms.

"The South Korean Army detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Samseok area in Pyongyang, North Korea fired toward the East Sea (Sea of Japan) at around 6:01 a.m. and 6:23 a.m. (local time)," the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement. The Japanese Administration also alerted the population about this new launch.

The communist regime in Pyongyang carried out this new attack as another step in the escalation that is taking place in the area. This is the sixth North Korean launch in the last ten days and comes after Seoul and Washington's announcement on Wednesday that the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan would return to the waters off the Korean Peninsula as a response to the intermediate-range ballistic missile that Pyongyang fired on Tuesday.

South Korea's National Security Council (NSC) held an emergency meeting Thursday to address this new launch. As reported by CNN, citing South Korean security officials, a U.S. Navy carrier strike group is moving into the waters off the Korean Peninsula as tensions escalate.