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Summary North Korea test-fired a short-range missile last week, South Korean sources said on Wednesday.
The launch was seen as a routine test to improve the countrys missile capability, the sources said, declining to give details. The defence ministry had no comment.Yonhap news agency quoted an intelligence source as saying that the North fired the KN-06 missile into the Yellow Sea in the middle of last week, apparently to test efforts to increase its range.It was the Norths first known test of short-range missiles since October 2009, when it test-fired five KN-02 surface-to-surface missiles off its east coast.
