(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) North Korea test-fired two ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast Wednesday as the leaders of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan held a summit in the Netherlands to pressure Pyongyang to denucleariz
Seoul condemned the launch as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and vowed to take countermeasures against the latest "provocations." North Korea fired the midrange missiles from the Sukchon region, north of Pyongyang, which flew about 650 kilometers before dropping into the East Sea, defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said in an emergency briefing.
"North Korea's ballistic missile launch clearly violates U.N. Security Resolutions and is a grave provocation to Republic of Korea (South) and the international community," Kim sai
The trajectory indicated that the missiles were of the Rodong class, as they flew over at altitudes of more than 160 km and with a top speed of over, the spokesman note
The foreign ministry said the South Korean "government will begin to take countermeasures against the North's latest provocations through close collaboration with allies and the United Nations Security Council." The foreign ministry also denounced the ballistic missile launches as grave threats to international navigation activities and civilian safety, warning the North against further provocative action
"The missile launch constitutes provocations that violate the UNSC resolutions and add tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in the Northeast Asian region," the ministry said in a statemen
"The government calls on the North to immediately halt such provocations and fully comply with its obligations and promises with the international community." The North fired a Rodong missile in 2006, followed by another launch in 200
North Korea is prohibited from any launch using ballistic missile technology under U.N. Security Council resolutions that were imposed on the impoverished nation for its past nuclear tests and missile launche
Kim said Pyongyang is believed to have launched the missiles in protest of international pressure for denuclearization during the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague earlier this week and the ongoing joint military drills between Seoul and Washington, as well as to show off its ballistic missile capabilit
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