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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Jang Do-young, spokesperson of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said missiles of various types were fired from an area around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, where the country’s main airport has been a major launch site in recent years.
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airport → say → years
Jang said one of the missiles flew more than 559 miles before falling into the sea but didn’t comment on the flight details of the other weapons.
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one → say → weapons
The joint chiefs didn’t specify how many missiles it detected.
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it → specify → missiles
Japan’s Defense Ministry said it detected at least two missiles and that the weapons landed in waters outside the country’s exclusive economic zone.
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weapons → say → zone
Japan’s prime minister’s office said no damage has been reported.
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damage → say → ?
While maintaining a hard line toward Seoul, North Korea has been ramping up weapons testing as it seeks to expand its arsenal of nuclear-capable systems, including an Oct. 3 test of what the North described as a hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to evade missile defenses in South Korea and Japan.
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North → maintain → Korea
North Korea has also conducted other missile tests and live-fire drills and commissioned a new warship as leader Kim Jong Un continues to flaunt his nuclear weapons program while rejecting US and South Korean offers to resume long-stalled diplomacy.
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Un → conduct → diplomacy
The latest launch came days after South Korea on Friday flight-tested its own domestically developed hypersonic weapon, designed to fly at least five times the speed of sound and evade missile defense systems, which President Lee Jae Myung described as critical in strengthening the South’s conventional defense capabilities.
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Myung → come → capabilities
Without directly addressing the growing threat from North Korea, Lee’s office said the hypersonic weapon, once fully developed, would enhance South Korea’s ability to strike key targets by surprise in the “Korean Peninsula theater of operations.”
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weapon → address → operations
Jang, the South Korean military official, said the latest North Korean launches likely were intended to advance the country’s missile technologies while also serving as a possible response to South Korea’s hypersonic test.
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launches → say → test
He declined to say whether the military assessed that the North had further tested its hypersonic technologies in the latest launch, saying the event was still being analyzed.
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event → decline → launch
The South’s presidential national security office called for North Korea to “immediately cease” its repeated ballistic launches, which violate UN Security Council resolutions against the North and “do not help manage the current situation on the Korean Peninsula.”
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which → call → Peninsula
Tensions were further worsened after three South Korean soldiers were injured in land mine explosions last month near the heavily armed inter-Korean border.
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soldiers → worsen → border
The South’s military and the U.S.-led United Nations Command concluded the blasts were caused by devices planted by North Korea, which has denied responsibility and ridiculed the South’s demands for an apology.
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which → conclude → apology
Kim in recent years has halted all diplomacy and cooperation with South Korea and described the neighbor as a permanent enemy during a prolonged stalemate in larger nuclear negotiations with Washington.
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Kim → halt → Washington
He has so far rebuffed US President Donald Trump’s calls to revive their diplomacy, which broke down in 2019, with his government demanding that Washington abandon its “hostile” policy toward Pyongyang and drop demands for North Korea’s denuclearization as a precondition for talks.
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Washington → rebuff → talks
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