Korea Utara Tembakkan Rudal Jarak Dekat untuk Uji Coba
North Korea Fires Short-Range Missiles for Test
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Seoul (B2B) - Korea Utara Sabtu ini meluncurkan tiga peluru kendali jarak pendek ke Laut Jepang, sebagai bagian dari latihan militer, kata kementerian pertahanan Korea Selatan.
"Korea Utara meluncurkan dua rudal di pagi hari dan satu lagi di sore hari," kata juru bicara kementerian pertahanan. "Rudal-rudal itu mendarat di Laut Timur (Laut Jepang)."
Korea Selatan mempertahankan pengawasan intensif terhadap Utara dan menjaga tingkat kesiapan tinggi dalam menangani setiap perkembangan berisiko.
Korea Utara kadang meluncurkan rudal-rudal jarak pendek untuk uji coba atau sebagai bagian dari latihan militer.
Seorang pejabat pertahanan AS mengatakan pekan lalu bahwa dua rudal Korea Utara diperkirakan telah ditembakkan saat ketegangan di semenanjung itu berkobar.
Para pejabat Korea Selatan dan AS khawatir bahwa satu uji tembak rudal jarak menengah Musudan akan memicu ketegangan baru di Semenanjung Korea.
Seoul - North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry said.
"North Korea launched two guided missiles in the morning and another one in the afternoon," a defence ministry spokesman. "The missiles landed in the East Sea (Sea of Japan)," he said.
South Korea was maintaining intense surveillance of the North and keeping a high-level of readiness to deal with any risky developments, he added.
North Korea sometimes launches short-range missiles for tests or as part of military drills, seperti dilaporkan Yahoo News!
A US defence official said last week that two North Korean Musudan medium-range missiles that had been primed for firing as tensions flared in the run-up to the North's national celebrations on April 15 had been moved from their launch site.
US and South Korean officials had been worried that any test of the medium-range missiles would trigger a fresh surge in tensions, which escalated after the North carried out a nuclear test in February.
