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North Korea Tests 5 Missiles: Report

Short-range test comes despite seemingly warmer relations with South, US

By the Associated Press

Posted Oct 12, 2009 11:03 AM CDT

(AP) – North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast today, news reports said, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its communist neighbor. South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified South Korean government official, said the North test-fired the surface-to-surface KN-02 rockets... Read full story »

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