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15:00, 04-Sep-2017
ROK military conducts live-fire missile drill after DPRK's H-bomb test
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South Korea's military on Monday carried out a live-fire missile drill, one day after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted its sixth nuclear test.
According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the army and the air force carried out the combined live-fire drill early Monday along the east coast.
The army fired surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and the air force mobilized fighter jets to fire SLAM-ER precision-guided air-to-surface missiles.
The missiles accurately hit a target in the eastern waters, the JCS said in a statement.
The homegrown Hyunmoo-2A ballistic missile has a 300-km range, with the SLMA-ER missiles capable of flying up to 270 km.
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency