INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
North Korea appeared to have fired a short-range multiple rocket launcher on Sunday, South Korea&s military said, amid heightened military
tensions on the peninsula after a spate of larger missile launches by the nuclear-armed North.While they garner much less attention than the
massive intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), North Korea has displayed several new types of multiple launch rocket systems in recent
years, adding to an already large arsenal of artillery and rockets ideal for potentially striking targets in the South, Reuters
reported.This morning there was firing in North Korea which is assumed to be multiple rocket launcher shots, and our military was monitoring
the related situation and maintaining a readiness posture,& South Korea&s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, without
elaborating.South Korea&s National Security Council held an emergency vice-ministerial meeting over the launches, Reuters reported.Last year
South Korea approved plans to pursue a $2.6-billion artillery interception system, similar to Israel&s &Iron Dome&, designed to protect
against North Korea&s arsenal of long-range guns and rockets.About half of South Korea&s 52 million people live in the capital Seoul and the
surrounding areas, within range of the neighbour&s long-range guns and multiple rocket launchers.Pyongyang has conducted an unusually high
pace of missile launches this year.South Korea and the United States warn that the North could resume test-firing its largest ICBMs for the
first time since 2017 amid stalled denuclearisation talks
North Korea also appears to be preparing to launch a spy satellite, and new construction has been spotted at its shuttered nuclear test
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