North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile, South Korea says

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward the East Sea on 6 August 2026, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. Some early accounts, including Yonhap and Anadolu, described it as an unidentified projectile, while Japan's NHK spoke of a possible ballistic missile. Japanese defence ministry sources told Asahi Shimbun that it landed outside Japan's exclusive economic zone.

The Japan Times noted that the launch fell on the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. El País wrote that the missile flew toward the Sea of Japan after North Korea had threatened Tokyo with military action. Separately, US Marines held their first live-fire FPV attack drone drills in South Korea.