Seoul, Nov. 4 -- North Korea fired multiple artillery rockets less than an hour prior to the visit by US defence chief Pete Hegseth to the Demilitarized Zone, separating it from South Korea, Seoul's military said on Tuesday.

South Korean media Yonhap cited its Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as saying that Pyongyang launched the rockets toward waters off the northern part of Yellow Sea also known as West Sea at around 4 pm on November 3 and that analysis of the weapons is being done.

The news agency further said, North Korea had also fired "another 10 artillery rocket shells" at around 3 pm on November 1 when South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Chinese President Xi Jinping held summit talks in Gyeongju during the Asia-Pacific Economic ...