North Korea: 3 missiles test-fired

May 25, 2009

N.KOREA CONDUCTS NUCLEAR TEST

3 missiles test-fired

		This Jan 5, 2009 photo shows a missile-firing drill in North Korea. North Korea seems to have test-fired a short-range missile on Monday. -- PHOTO: AFP

SEOUL - NORTH Korea test-fired three short-range missiles on Monday, the same day it conducted an underground nuclear test, South Korea's military said.

'North Korea (test)fired a short-range missile from Musudan at around 12pm (11am Singapore time) and two more short-range missiles from Wonsan at around 5pm,' a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff told AFP. He gave no more details.

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Yonhap news agency quoted sources as saying the North fired three ground-to-air missiles with a range of 130km.

MSingapore, Singapore Kopitiam, sunkopitiam, Singapore Forum, Singapurakini, missile test, nuclear test, North Koreausudan-ri on the northeast coast is where the North fired a long-range Taepodong-2 rocket on April 5. Wonsan is a city on the southeast coast, where another missile base is located.

Yonhap quoted one official as saying the North may have been trying to deter US aerial surveillance efforts following the nuclear test.

Japan's coast guard said last week the communist state was warning ships not to pass through waters within a 130km radius of the town of Kimchaek on its northeast coast.

The North says its April 5 launch put a satellite into orbit but other nations said it staged a disguised missile test. The UN Security Council condemned the launch and tightened sanctions on Pyongyang firms.

In response the North threatened more nuclear and missile tests. It announced on Monday it had conducted a second nuclear test, more powerful than the first in October 2006. The test was conducted in the Kilju region not far from Musudan-ri.

Countries around the world condemned the tests, with some saying they are considering imposing sanctions against Pyongyang. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said on Monday he was 'deeply disturbed' by North Korea's nuclear test and was closely following events.

The UN chief called on Pyongyang to respect UN Security Council resolution 1718, which demands that North Korea refrain from nuclear testing. The resolution was passed afte the regime's first nuclear test in 2006. -- AFP

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