GMA News:
The United States warned Monday it would raise concerns at the United Nations over the latest North Korean missile tests carried out in violation of Security Council resolutions.
US Strategic Command said it detected and tracked three North Korean missile launches at 2044 GMT, 2058 GMT and 2135 GMT, just over a week after Pyongyang issued threats to respond to the planned deployment of a US anti-missile system in South Korea.
“The near back-to-back launch of two presumed Scud tactical ballistic missiles, followed by the presumed launch of a No Dong intermediate range ballistic missile approximately an hour later, occurred near Hwangju,” it said.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, however, “determined the missile launches from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America,” the STRATCOM statement added.
The UN Security Council has slapped a series of sanctions against the hermit state that ban the North from conducting ballistic missile tests.
“We strongly condemn this and North Korea’s other recent missile tests, which violate UN Security Council Resolutions explicitly prohibiting North Korea’s launches using ballistic missile technology,” said Commander Gary Ross, a Pentagon spokesman
