North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from the Munchon area of Kangwon Province to the waters off the peninsula’s eastern coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters on Sunday.“North Korea’s repeated ballistic missile launch is a serious provocation that harms peace and safety of the Korean Peninsula as well as the international community, and it is also a clear violation of the UNSC resolution,” the joint chiefs said, condemning and urging the North to immediately stop such actions of testing missiles.The US commitments to the defense of the Republic of Korea and Japan remain ironclad.”US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned if North Korea continues “down this road” of provocation following its ballistic missile launch Tuesday, “it will only increase the condemnation, increase the isolation and increase the steps that are taken in response to their actions.”The US imposed new sanctions Friday, following North Korean recent ballistic missile tests, the US Treasury and State Department said.North Korea usually fires its missiles into waters off the coast of the Korean Peninsula, making Tuesday’s flight over Japan considerably more provocative.The US has also redeployed an aircraft carrier into waters near the peninsula, a move South Korean authorities called “very unusual.”Japan issued a strong protest against North Korea through its embassy in Beijing, Ino said."