
Presidential National Security Office calls missile firing a violation of U.N. resolutions
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The emergency meeting follows North Korea's ballistic missile launch and recent tensions surrounding a mine blast inside the DMZ.
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Yonhap) -- The presidential National Security Office (NSO) has held an emergency meeting to discuss North Korea's firing of at least one ballistic missile, Cheong Wa Dae said Saturday.
The NSO said the North's firing of a ballistic missile is in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and urged Pyongyang to immediately stop such provocative action.
South Korea's military said the North fired at least one ballistic missile earlier in the day, a day after Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, again rejected blame for the recent mine blast inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and mocked Seoul's call to reduce tensions.

On the 3rd, the National Security Office held an emergency security situation review meeting with the Ministry of National Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in relation to North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile into the East Sea and ordered response status confirmation and impact analysis and evaluation. The government emphasized that it would check preparedness and make every effort to prepare for this launch following the mine explosion incident in the Demilitarized Zone.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that North Korea launched an unidentified projectile into the East Sea on the morning of the 3rd. This launch took place three days after our military demanded an apology from North Korea for an incident in which three soldiers were injured by a North Korean landmine explosion at the DMZ on the Western Front.

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