The South Korean Missile Strategy Command fired a Hyunmoo-2 missile from South Chungcheong Province, about 65 miles southwest of Seoul, to demonstrate the command’s ability to make “precision strikes against the enemy’s origin of provocation,” according to a news release Friday from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

A Hyunmoo surface-to-surface short-range missile was sent into the West Sea in the exercise. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pyongyang launched at least seven missiles on Monday evening in what some analysts believe is an attempt to gain U.S. attention.