North Korea fired 7 short-range projectiles off its east coast, South Korea’s Ministry of Defense said yesterday.
At the same time, a Chinese Southern Airlines passenger plane was headed from Tokyo Narita Airport in Japan to Shenyang in China. North Korea fired after Chinese Southern Airlines took off from Narita airport in Japan, where the flight originated.
The China Southern Airlines (1055) Co. airplane, which was carrying 220 passengers, passed through the trajectory of a rocket launched yesterday by North Korea from its east coast seven minutes earlier endangering the life of passengers and crew.