N.Korea fires unidentified projectile eastward: Seoul #NKorea #unidentified

Seoul, Jan 14 : North Korea fired an unidentified projectile eastward on Friday, hours after it warned of a "stronger and certain" response following the US imposition of new sanctions, South Koreas military said.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced the launch, the third in a little over a week, without elaborating further, reports Yonhap News Agency.

Earlier in the day, Pyongyang issued the warning after Washington slapped the sanctions on six North Koreans involved in the regimes weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes on Wednesday."If the US adopts such a confrontational stance, the DPRK will be forced to take stronger and certain reaction to it," a spokesperson of the Norths Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the Pyongyangs official Korean Central News Agency.

DPRK stands for the Norths official name, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.The North fired what it claims to be hypersonic missiles on January 5 and Tuesday, in an apparent quest for new advanced weapons amid a deadlock in nuclear talks with the US.ksk/ #NKorea #unidentified #projectile #eastward #Seoul #Jan #Washington #Washington #Democratic.