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06-09-2017, 04:24 AM
SEOUL: **rth Korea launched a volley of surface-to-ship cruise missiles off its east coast on Thursday, Seoul’s defence ministry said, the latest in an accelerating ****** of tests defying global pressure to rein in its ******* programme.
The launches come less than a week after the United Nations expanded sanctions against Pyongyang in response to recent ballistic missile tests.
"**rth Korea fired multiple unidentified projectiles, assumed to be surface-to-ship cruise missiles, this morning from the vicinity of Wonsan, Gangwon Province," the defence ministry said.
The short range missiles flew for some 200 kilometres at an altitude of two kilometres before falling into the Sea of Japan, the ministry added.
The launch "was aimed at showing off various missile capabilities and antiship precision strike capability," a spokesman for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters, adding it did **t appear to have violated UN sanctions.
Cruise missile tests do **t contravene UN regulations, Korea Defence Network analyst Lee Il-Woo told AFP, adding they were "much slower than ballistic missiles and can be shot down by anti-aircraft guns".
Any **rth Korean tests using ballistic missile tech**logy are banned by UN resolutions.
"**rth Korea is carrying out carefully calibrated provocations... but restraining from ICBM tests or nuclear explosions which could bring about military retaliations by (US President Donald) Trump," he added.
Thursday’s launches are the **rth’s fifth round of tests -- three ballistic missile launches, a surface-to-air missile and **w the cruise missiles -- since the South’s new president Moon Jae-in took power in early May.
The UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a US-drafted resolution imposing new targeted sanctions on a handful of **rth Korean officials and entities, in response to the recent tests.
**rth Korea described the latest UN sanctions as "mean" and warned they would **t stop its missile and nuclear ******* programmes.
China, the reclusive regime’s sole major ally, has made it clear that a push for talks -- and **t more sanctions -- is its priority.
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The launches come less than a week after the United Nations expanded sanctions against Pyongyang in response to recent ballistic missile tests.
"**rth Korea fired multiple unidentified projectiles, assumed to be surface-to-ship cruise missiles, this morning from the vicinity of Wonsan, Gangwon Province," the defence ministry said.
The short range missiles flew for some 200 kilometres at an altitude of two kilometres before falling into the Sea of Japan, the ministry added.
The launch "was aimed at showing off various missile capabilities and antiship precision strike capability," a spokesman for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters, adding it did **t appear to have violated UN sanctions.
Cruise missile tests do **t contravene UN regulations, Korea Defence Network analyst Lee Il-Woo told AFP, adding they were "much slower than ballistic missiles and can be shot down by anti-aircraft guns".
Any **rth Korean tests using ballistic missile tech**logy are banned by UN resolutions.
"**rth Korea is carrying out carefully calibrated provocations... but restraining from ICBM tests or nuclear explosions which could bring about military retaliations by (US President Donald) Trump," he added.
Thursday’s launches are the **rth’s fifth round of tests -- three ballistic missile launches, a surface-to-air missile and **w the cruise missiles -- since the South’s new president Moon Jae-in took power in early May.
The UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a US-drafted resolution imposing new targeted sanctions on a handful of **rth Korean officials and entities, in response to the recent tests.
**rth Korea described the latest UN sanctions as "mean" and warned they would **t stop its missile and nuclear ******* programmes.
China, the reclusive regime’s sole major ally, has made it clear that a push for talks -- and **t more sanctions -- is its priority.
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