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May 19th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, a Seoul military official said, one day after firing three short-range guided missiles. Meanwhile, South Korea has deployed precision-guided missiles on its border islands.
Seoul has placed Israeli precision-guided missiles capable of
hitting North Korean targets on its Yellow Sea border islands,
Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.
“Dozens of Spike missiles and their launchers have recently
been deployed on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands,” an
official for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. “They can
destroy [North Korea’s] underground facilities and can pursue and
strike moving targets.”
The satellite-guided Spike missile has a range of about 20km
(12.4 miles) and weighs 70kg (154lbs), according to military
officials.
Yeonpyeong is situated just 11km (6.8 miles) from North Korean
shores.
South Korea moved to place the Israeli missiles after Seoul
confirmed that North Korea on Saturday had launched three
short-range guided missiles off its east coast into the Sea of
Japan.
Japan confirmed the report of the launches, saying its military
had detected them as well.
Two launches were fired on Saturday morning and another one in
the afternoon, the Yonhap news agency reported.
Media reports speculated that the projectiles were likely
shore-based anti-ship KN-2 Toksa missiles, North Korea’s version of
the Soviet-made OTR-21 Tochka tactical ballistic missile, which
Pyongyang is believed to have reverse-engineered.
“The missiles traveled about 120 km and in the North Korean
arsenal, only the modified KN-02 or multiple rocket launchers of
300 mm or larger in caliber can go that far,” a source in the
South Korean government said.
Seoul condemned North Korea’s latest short-range missile
launches as “provocative.”
North Korea has not commented on the launches.
While the latest test launch only involves short-range missiles,
it poses security threats to the region and should be “stopped
immediately,” said the Seoul ministry that is charged with
cross-border affairs.
“We find it deplorable that the North does not stop
provocative actions such as the launch of guided missiles
yesterday,” said Unification Ministry spokesman Kim
Hyung-Seok.
“We call on the North to take responsible actions for our
sake and for the sake of the international community.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern over the
missile launches and urged Pyongyang to return to talks on the
nuclear issue in the six-party format.
“We are very concerned about North Korea’s provocative
actions,” Ban told reporters in Moscow on the weekend. “I
hope that North Korea will refrain from any further such
actions.”
The UN Secretary General said hopes that Russia “will
continue to use their contacts to reduce tensions and intensify the
dialogue with North Korea.”
He said that he had discussed this subject matter in a meeting
on Friday in Sochi with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, the US State Department Saturday called on the North
to exercise restraint, without specifically mentioning the
launches.
The US stations around 28,500 troops in South Korea, a
carry-over from the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an
armistice, not a peace treaty, between the warring sides.
The Korean Peninsula is emerging from the latest episode of
tensions, which began February 12, 2013, when Pyongyang announced
it had conducted an underground nuclear test, its third in seven
years.
The test was met with harsh international condemnation and a new
round of sanctions by the UN Security Council.
South Korea and the US responded with large scale naval
maneuvers, which Pyongyang called a provocation and threatened to
use its nuclear arsenal if attacked.
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/north-korea-missile-sea-494/
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