North Korea follows nuclear test with missile launch

Musudan-ri missile range
North Korea fired a short-range missile on Monday just hours after it said it had conducted a nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a diplomatic source as saying.

South Korean officials were checking into the Yonhap report that the North fired a surface-to-air missile with a range of about 130 km (80 miles) from its coast Musudan-ri missile range, from which it fired a long-range rocket in April.

The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution barring North Korea from firing ballistic missiles after July 2006 when it test-launched a long-range missile which blew apart seconds after launch but was designed to strike U.S. territory.

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