Photo of a short-range ballistic missile that North Korea launches from a secret site posted on KCNA on July 16, 2019. (photo: AFP/VNA)

Yonhap news agency reports that South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was notified shortly after the North launched the missiles and National Security Adviser Kim Sung-han convened a meeting of the NSC.

The launches were carried out from the Munchon area in Gangwon province of North Korea. The two missiles flew 350 km and reached a maximum altitude of about 90 km and a maximum speed of Mach 5.

Kyodo news agency quoted Japanese officials as saying that both missiles fell outside North Korea’s exclusive economic zone. 

Tokyo is analyzing whether these are submarine-launched ballistic missiles or not.