North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles, according to South Korea's military, a week after making threats to take action over the planned deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in the South.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missiles were launched from the western city of Hwangu early Tuesday and fired between 500 and 600 kilometers toward the Sea of Japan [East Sea]. The statement said South Korea is closely monitoring the North's actions.
Last week, North Korea threatened to take "physical action" after the United States and South Korea announced they would deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense — THAAD — on the Korean peninsula to counter Pyongyang's ongoing nuclear and ballistic missile development programs...
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18/7/16
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missiles were launched from the western city of Hwangu early Tuesday and fired between 500 and 600 kilometers toward the Sea of Japan [East Sea]. The statement said South Korea is closely monitoring the North's actions.
Last week, North Korea threatened to take "physical action" after the United States and South Korea announced they would deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense — THAAD — on the Korean peninsula to counter Pyongyang's ongoing nuclear and ballistic missile development programs...
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18/7/16
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N.Korea violates UN resolutions with three new ballistic missile tests ...
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The launches drew swift condemnation from the US and Japan, who vowed a coordinated response to Pyongyang's violations of UN sanctions that bar it from weapons tests. North Korea said this month it was severing all diplomatic channels with the US.
Two SCUD missiles flew between 500 and 600 kilometers into the Sea of Japan, while a third, believed to be Rodong intermediate-range ballistic missile, was fired about an hour later.
The trajectory of the Rodong missile was still being analyzed, spokesperson Jeon Ha-kyu of Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.....AFP