North Korea missile lands off South Korean coast for first time; South responds with own launches

 A North Korean ballistic missile landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast on Wednesday, the first time an apparent test had landed near the South's waters, and South Korea responded with missile launches of its own, officials said, Qazet.az reports.

The missile landed outside of South Korea's territorial waters, but south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a disputed inter-Korean maritime border in what South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called an "effective act of territorial encroachment."

South Korean warplanes fired three air-to-ground missiles into the sea north across the NLL in response, the South's military said.

The South's launches came after Yoon's office vowed a "swift and firm response" so North Korea "pays the price for provocation".