| Deja vu all over again. |
“The US is deeply troubled that North Korea has decided to launch these missiles during a delicate time in the Six-Party Talks,” said National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
“The launches of these ballistic missiles are a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which prohibits North Korea from engaging in all ballistic missile activities.
“We expect North Korea to refrain from conducting further provocative ballistic missile launches, activity that is destabilising to the security of northeast Asia and turn its focus to implementing its commitments under the February 13th Agreement, including the immediate shut down of Yongbyon (nuclear reactor site),” Mr Johndroe added.
North Korea appeared to have test-fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan yesterday as part of a routine military exercise, Yonhap news agency said in Seoul.
The reported test came at a sensitive time as UN inspectors were to visit the reactor at the centre of North Korea's nuclear program in their first on-site inspection in nearly five years.