North Korea fired seven surface-to-air missiles into the sea off its east coast on Thursday in an operation supervised by leader Kim Jong-Un

North Korea fired seven surface-to-air missiles into the sea off its east coast on Thursday in an operation supervised by leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea's Defence Ministry said Friday.
  
A ministry spokesman said Kim was understood to have been on hand when the rockets were fired early Thursday evening from a site near the eastern town of Sondok.
  
The exercise came at a time of elevated tensions with North Korea's condemnation of annual US-South Korea military drills that Pyongyang views as rehearsals for invasion.
  
"We see this as another show of force by the North related to the exercises," the spokesman told AFP. One of the joint drills, Key Resolve, wound up Friday, but the other, Foal Eagle, is set to continue until April 24.