North Korea Fires Two Short-Range Rockets, South Says (Update1)
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By Heejin Koo
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea fired two short-range missiles today in defiance of
United Nations sanctions, South Korea said.
The rockets were launched at 5:20 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. and were likely part of a military drill, an official at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff who declined to be identified for security reasons said. South Korea is “monitoring the movement’s of North Korea’s military very closely,” Foreign Minister
Yu Myung Hwan said in an interview.
North Korea has used such launches in the past to emphasize its rejection of UN sanctions. The communist state fired six short-range rockets in May, following its detonation of a nuclear bomb.
“The South Korean government doesn’t take these short- range missiles as seriously as it would a mid-range missile or a long-range missile,” Yu said in an interview on the sidelines of a gathering at the U.S. embassy in Seoul.
The UN Security Council approved a U.S.-backed resolution on June 12 to curb financial transactions with North Korea and prevent it from proliferating weapons of mass destruction after the communist country conducted a nuclear test May 25.
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