South Korea has dispatched a salvaging vessel to search for a North Korean ballistic missile that landed near ROK waters earlier this week, the navy said Friday.

The 3,500-ton salvage tug sailed on Friday to the area where the short-range missile likely splashed down off the east coast, according to the South Korean navy.

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) previously reported that the missile landed in international waters on Wednesday morning around 16 miles (26 km) south of the inter-Korean maritime border called the Northern Limit Line (NLL), 35 miles (57 km) east of the coastal city of Sokcho