North Korea's fired a missile and artillery shells inflaming regional tensions A ballistic missile and hundreds of shells were hurled towards the sea and warplanes flew near the tents border with South Korea Further raising animosities triggered by the Norse recent barrage of weapons tests the moves suggest the regimes reviving an old playbook of stoking fears of war with provocative weapons tests before it seeks to win greater concessions from its rivals It was Pyongyang's 15th missile launch since testing activities resumed on September 25 The regime saying on Monday it's recent missile tests are simulations of nuclear strikes on South Korean and U.S. targets in response to their provocations