SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea and warned it would continue developing its nuclear weapons on Friday, hours after the U.S., South Korean and Japanese leaders pledged to work closer together to prevent the North from advancing its nuclear and missile programs.
The surface-to-air missile fired from an eastern coastal area flew into waters off the North's east coast, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. It gave no further details.
The missile is the latest in a series of weapon launches by the North in an apparent response to ongoing military exercises between the United States and South Korea. North Korea views the drills as an invasion rehearsal.
"If the United States continues (drills with the South), then we have to make the countermeasures also, as I told you. So, we have to develop and we have to make more deterrence, nuclear deterrence," the North's ambassador to the United Nations, So Se Pyong, told the Reuters news agency in Geneva.
The surface-to-air missile fired from an eastern coastal area flew into waters off the North's east coast, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. It gave no further details.
The missile is the latest in a series of weapon launches by the North in an apparent response to ongoing military exercises between the United States and South Korea. North Korea views the drills as an invasion rehearsal.
"If the United States continues (drills with the South), then we have to make the countermeasures also, as I told you. So, we have to develop and we have to make more deterrence, nuclear deterrence," the North's ambassador to the United Nations, So Se Pyong, told the Reuters news agency in Geneva.
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