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North Korea test-fires short-range missile
DefenceTalk.com ^
Posted on May 24, 2009 11:52:47 PM PDT by DTAD
North Korea appears to have test-fired a short-range missile on Monday, the same day it conducted an underground nuclear test, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
“A single ground-to-air missile with a range of 130 km (81 miles) was fired from Musudan-ri, Hwadae County,” it quoted a diplomatic source as saying.
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Russia confirms North Korea’s nuclear test - Summary (yield: 10 ~ 20 kilo tons)
Earthtimes ^ | 05/25/09
Posted on May 25, 2009 1:32:46 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russia confirms North Korea’s nuclear test - Summary
Posted on : 2009-05-25 | Author : DPA News Category : Europe
Moscow - Russia’s Defence Ministry on Monday confirmed that North Korea had conducted a subterranean nuclear test. The nuclear explosion had a strength of between 10 and 20 kilotons, Defence Ministry spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said, according to the Interfax news agency.
The detonation was registered in an area some 80 kilometres north- west of the city of Kilchu.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who was in Lebanon on Monday expressed concern over the developments.
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