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The missiles were fired from the city of Wonsan, where similar launches have occurred, and sources indicate that the projectiles flew a distance of approximately 300 miles.
"The military is keeping close tabs on the situation and prepared to deal with any North Korean provocations," South Korea's Joint Chief of Staff said in a statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claimed that Pyongyang is in possession of miniaturized nuclear warheads.
"The nuclear warheads have been standardized to be fit for ballistic missiles by miniaturizing them," Kim said, according to KCNA, adding "this can be called a true nuclear deterrent."
This week, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a strong condemnation of North Korea's threat to use preventive strikes.
"In particular, we consider public statements with threats of carrying out some 'preventive nuclear attacks' against one's opponents completely unacceptable," a statement from the Foreign Ministry reads. "Pyongyang must understand that North Korea completely sets itself against the international community, provides the international legal basis for the use of military force against it."
Pyongyang has also expressed outrage over joint military drills between Washington and Seoul. The largest ever conducted, the exercises are meant to mimic a hypothetical invasion of North Korea
The UN imposed new sanctions — the harshest in 20 years — against Pyongyang last week over nuclear tests conducted earlier this year. The DPRK also launched a satellite in February which the UN deemed a veiled attempt to demonstrate its ballistic missile capabilities.
Hours after those new penalties were put in place, North Korea fired short-range missiles into the ocean.
North Korea is an internationally acknowledged sovereign state and as such is entitled to find a way of living that works for its society. Over the past decades they have built schools, universities, hospitals, roads, sewage systems, theatres, museums, parks and industries. Their leader actively supports the right of people to find their higher self.
N Korea is a tiny country surrounded by nations and forces who wish to interfere in their vision. Their leaders get scared by all the bullying and criticism it is forced to endure and they become cornered and scared. Events outside their borders demonstrate that world leaders who are not tolerated are hunted and killed by the powerful, and regimes are changed, so the leaders become paranoid thinking they are next on the hit list.
No one ever points out or supports N Korea's achievements, which is a shame; instead they highlight and ridicule the negatives they perceive. Obviously in a world without external threats IKorea would not present such an aggressive stance, since there would be no need.