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Sunday, March 23, 2014

North Korea test fires 16 missiles for second day running

Frog-7B missileNorth Korea has test-fired 16 short-range rockets into the sea, the South's military said - the latest of dozens launched in recent weeks in apparent protest at joint drills between Seoul and Washington.

The launches took place between about 1am (1600 GMT Saturday) and 2:30am off the North's east coast, a South Korean defence ministry spokesman said.

"They were rockets with a range of about 60 kilometres (37 miles)," he said, adding the projectiles were old versions of Russian-made, unguided Frog rockets.

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