STORY: South Korea and the US military have responded to North Korea’s recent missile launch towards Japan and fired missiles in the region themselves. South Korean and American troops fired several short-range missiles into the sea in response to the downing, South Korea’s chiefs of staff said on Wednesday. The rockets hit their decoy targets precisely, it said. However, one of the South Korean army’s ballistic missiles is said to have failed and fell to the ground. However, there were no injuries in the accident. North Korea fired a medium-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan on Tuesday. It was the first time a North Korean missile had flown over the Japanese archipelago in almost five years. Both the US and NATO strongly condemned the test. The United States has called on the UN Security Council to hold a session on North Korea on Wednesday. .