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NORTH KOREA fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward Japan today during its second weapons test in three days.
The move drew quick condemnation, prompting Tokyo to request an emergency meeting of the United Nations security council.
The test follows an intercontinental ballistic missile launch on Saturday and North Korea’s threats to take a strong response to United States-South Korean military drills, which the North views as an invasion rehearsal.
Japan said that both missiles landed in the waters outside the Japanese exclusive economic zone between the Korean peninsula and Japan and that no damage involving aircraft and vessels in the area was reported.
South Korea’s military said that North Korea’s repeated missile launches are a grave provocation that undermine international peace.
Japan condemned the launches as a threat to its safety and Prime Minister Fumio Kishidi said: “We must deepen Japan-US and Japan-US-South Korea co-operation.”
North Korea’s state media said that long-range artillery units fired two rounds towards the eastern waters. The official Korean Central News Agency said that the artillery rounds simulated strikes on targets up to 245 miles away.
