Yoon vows to protect nation after latest NK missile launch

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President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks to reporters as he arrives at the presidential office in Seoul, Oct. 6. Yonhap

President Yoon Suk-yeol vowed Thursday to protect the nation's safety through a strong alliance with the United States and trilateral cooperation with the U.S. and Japan, after North Korea carried out yet another missile launch earlier in the day.

The North fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea in its sixth launch in under two weeks. The latest launch came just two days after the North carried out a provocative firing of an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) over Japan.

"I know the people must be worried, but our government will thoroughly take care of the people's lives and safety through a strong South Korea-U.S. alliance and security cooperation between South Korea, the U.S. and Japan," he told reporters as he arrived for work.

Yoon also referred to North Korea's IRBM launch on Tuesday, saying the missile put the U.S. territory of Guam within range, aiming to "strike strategic assets that will be deployed to the Korean Peninsula" in a contingency.