North Korea threatened on Tuesday to carry out more weapons tests after it fired its fourth set of projectiles in less than two weeks following the start of joint exercises between the US and the South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rising temperature on the peninsula threatens to derail putative negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington, with the North saying the combined drills were a \u201cflagrant violation\u201d of the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pyongyang has always been infuriated by military exercises between the South and US, seeing them as rehearsals for invasion, but in the past it has tended to avoid carrying out missile tests while the war games were taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The speed of its statement on Tuesday was also unusual, coming within an hour of it carrying out its launch, rather than its usual practice of a day later.The North fired \u201ctwo projectiles that are assumed to be short-range ballistic missiles\u201d from South Hwanghae province on its west coast, Seoul\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They flew around 450 kilometres across the peninsula and into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, reaching an altitude of 37 kilometres and a speed of \u201cat least Mach 6.9\u201d, they said.That puts them around the middle of the range of the projectiles that have been fired by the North four times in the past 12 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seoul has described most of them as short-range ballistic missiles the North is banned from ballistic missile launches under UN Security Council resolutions while Pyongyang has said some were a \u201clarge-calibre multiple-launch guided rocket system\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The latest launch came after the South Korean and US militaries began mainly computer-simulated joint exercises on Monday to test Seoul\u2019s ability to take operational control in wartime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Less than an hour after the North\u2019s weapons test, an official of its foreign ministry said the drills were \u201can undisguised denial and a flagrant violation\u201d of the diplomatic process between Pyongyang, Washington and Seoul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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