SEOUL:
Pyongyang’s state media on Thursday carried a statement by an unnamed military spokesman who called Seoul’s criticism a “cock-and-bull story.” Seoul’s presidential Blue House and Defense Ministry have raised concern that Saturday’s launches went against the spirit of an inter-Korean military agreement reached last year to cease all hostile acts.
A separate statement by a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman described the launches as a “routine and self-defensive military drill.”
The launches were a likely sign of
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