Seoul – September 15 (Online): South Korea’s military has said that North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles across its sea cost, media reports claimed Wednesday.
According to details, tests are North Korea’s first ballistic missile tests in six months.
The tests, a breach of UN resolutions, came as South Korea and China held meetings in an effort to get the North to resume denuclearisation talks.
Just days earlier, the North fired a new long-range cruise missile.
The recent launches show the North has continued to develop its weapons despite a severe economic crisis.
Experts say the country carries out such tests to improve its technology while trying to increase its leverage in negotiations with the US.
The US wants North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile programmes in exchange for sanctions relief, but the North has refused.
Wednesday’s short-range missiles flew around 800 km (500 miles) at a maximum altitude of 60km, and were launched from central inland areas of North Korea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
They flew east towards the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, the JCS added, saying South Korea and the US were conducting analysis to determine which type of missile was used.
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