North Korea fires missiles into sea: reportTue Oct 7, 2008 10:23pm EDT
By Jack Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has fired two short-range
missiles into the Yellow Sea, a news report said on Wednesday,
in a move likely aimed at dialing up tension as global powers
try to have it abide by a nuclear disarmament deal.
The North fired the missiles into the Yellow Sea on Tuesday as
a part of routine military training, South Korea's Yonhap news
agency cited an unidentified government official as saying.
The North, however, has a history of timing its missile
launches to periods of increased tension in the region in saber-
rattling bids aimed to show that it is ready to take a hard and
defiant line, analysts have said.
"We understand North Korea fired two short-range missiles in
the afternoon of (October) 7th into the (Yellow) Sea," Yonhap
quoted an unidentified South Korean official as saying.
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