N. Korea fires 2 more missiles into sea
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NORTH Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea yesterday, in an apparent show of anger at an upcoming joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States, Seoul’s military said.
North Korea fired the two ballistic missiles into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) at 1:20am and 1:30am, according to the South’s defense ministry spokesman.
“Their range appeared to be around 500 kilometers,” he said, adding Seoul’s military had stepped up monitoring for additional launches.
The move — the latest in a series of similar launches in recent weeks — came a day after Pyongyang condemned an upcoming Seoul-Washington naval joint exercise.
The annual drill, from July 16-21, involves the US aircraft carrier George Washington, which arrived in the southern port of Busan on Friday.
The North bristled on Saturday at the nuclear-powered carrier visiting the port, calling it a “reckless” act of provocation.
“The US should properly understand that the more persistently it resorts to reckless nuclear blackmail and threat, the further (North Korea) will bolster its cutting-edge nuclear force for self-defense,” said the North’s top military body, the National Defense Commission.
United Nations resolutions bar it from conducting any ballistic missile tests. Yesterday’s launch — the fifth in just over two weeks — took place in a sensitive area near the heavily-fortified border with the South, the defense ministry spokesman said without elaborating.
Yonhap news agency said the missiles were launched only about 20km north of the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the peninsula since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice.
North Korea appears to have moved them from a military base about 50-60km away by using mobile launchers, it said.
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