North Korea fires 3 ballistic missiles off east coast: Yonhap

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SEOUL: North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday (Sep 5), South Korea's Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
The missiles were fired from a western region south of the capital Pyongyang, said the statement just after noon local time (11am, Singapore time). The missile launches were the latest in a series of launches by the isolated North this year in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The South's military was trying to determine the type of missiles launched, a military official said. No other details were immediately available.
The launches came hours after the leaders of South Korea and China, the North's main diplomatic ally, met on the sidelines of a world leaders' meeting in Hangzhou, China.
Pyongyang's latest show of force comes some two weeks after it test fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
At the G20 meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye that China opposes the US deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea. 
Park told Chinese Xi that the North's fourth nuclear test and its ballistic missile launches this year threatened regional peace and posed a challenge to South Korea's ties with China, Yonhap news agency reported earlier.
During the meeting, Xi reaffirmed China's commitment to realising the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.
The United States and South Korea made a final decision in July to deploy the US erminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system in the South to counter missile and nuclear threats from North Korea.
Park said that a THAAD deployment would not threaten any other country's security interests and would not be needed if the North's nuclear issue was resolved, Yonhap news agency said.
In July, the North launched three missiles in a single day from the western region that flew across the country and into the sea off its east coast, flying about 500km and 600km.
In 2014, the North fired two Rodong medium-range missiles just as Park and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were sitting down with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Hague to discuss responding to the North's arms programme.

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