Credit: President of Russia website North Korea launched roughly 10 ballistic missiles on Saturday, escalating tensions in the region as the United States and South Korea continued joint military drills designed to deter exactly this kind of communist aggression. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from the Sunan area near Pyongyang at about 1:20 p.m. local time and flew roughly 350 kilometers before splashing into the sea off the North’s east coast, Reuters reported. Japanese officials said the projectiles did not land inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. RTL Today reported: Pyongyang recently dashed hopes of a diplomatic thaw with Seoul, Washington’s security ally, describing its latest peace efforts as a “clumsy, deceptive farce”. Seoul’s military detected “around ten ballistic missiles…

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