North Korea test-fired two missiles into the sea early Wednesday, an official in Seoul said, prompting condemnation from South Korea, Japan and the United States, dpa reported. It was the latest of several such launches this week, as South Korean, Japanese and US leaders criticized North Korea's nuclear weapons programme at a meeting in the Netherlands. The missiles were fired from north of Pyongyang and flew around 650 kilometres before falling into the waters east of the Korean Peninsula, a spokesman for the South's Defence Ministry said. "North Korea fired a ballistic missile at 2:35 am (1735 GMT) and another at 2:45 am," the South Korean military was cited as saying by Yonhap News Agency. The United States said the latest launches of No-Dong type missiles, as well as those of Scud missiles on March 3 and February 27, violated UN Security Council resolutions that established missile moratoriums for Pyongyang.
