<span style="color: #222222;">South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff today said North Korea test-fired at least one suspected ballistic missile toward the sea today.<br />''<br />'' Japan's Prime Minister's Office and Defense Ministry also said the launch possibly involved a ballistic missile while its coast guard issued a warning for vessels passing nearby waters. It was North Korea's 12th round of weapons launches this year and came after it fired suspected artillery pieces into the sea on Sunday. North Korea has also tested a variety of new missiles, including a purported hypersonic weapon and its first launch since 2017 of an intermediate-range missile potentially capable of reaching Guam, a key U.S. military hub in the Pacific.<br />''<br />''It also conducted two medium-range tests from near its capital area in recent weeks that the U.S. and South Korean militaries later assessed as involving components of the North's largest ICBM, the Hwasong-17, which they said could be tested at the full range soon.</span><br />