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South Korea conducts missile simulating attack on North Korea
In response to Pyongyang’s sixth missile test, South Korea has staged live-fire missile drills simulating an attack on the North Korean nuclear site.
Reports say the live-fire exercise saw rockets launched from fighter jets and ballistic missiles from the ground.
It came as the US warned that any threat to itself or its allies would be met with a “massive military response”.
Read also: World leaders condemn North Korea’s 6th missile test
South Korea’s defence ministry said it had detected indications that the North was preparing more missile launches.
“We have continued to see signs of possibly more ballistic missile launches. We also forecast North Korea could fire an intercontinental ballistic missile,” Chang Kyung-soo, a ministry official, told parliament.
Pyongyang has repeatedly defied UN sanctions and international pressure by developing nuclear weapons and testing missiles, and the provocations have only intensified.
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