North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Thursday, the South Korean military said, in a resumption of its weapons testing activities to protest just-ended South Korean-U.S. live-fire drills, which it views as an invasion rehearsal.
The North Korean launch is its first since it failed in an attempt to put its first spy satellite into orbit in late May.
"Our response to is inevitable," an unidentified spokesperson of the North Korean Defence Ministry said in a statement carried by state media. "Our armed forces will fully counter any form of demonstrative moves and provocation of the enemies." "This launch is not to make up for the recent failure, because North Korea will almost certainly make another attempt later to put a spy satellite into orbit," said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. "The message of today's missiles is more likely Pyongyang's protest against South Korea's combined defence exercises with the United States, as well as a demonstration of North Korea's own military capabilities and readiness.
"Only a strong military -- which can fight and defeat the enemy and which the enemy can't even dare to challenge -- can guarantee the freedom, peace and prosperity of the Republic of Korea," Yoon said at the training site, using South Korea's official name.
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