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WORLD NEWSFriday 4 March 2016

Seoul: North Korea fires short-range projectiles into sea

A man watches a TV news program showing a file footage of the missile launch conducted by but often conducts weap- treme” U.S. hostility against
North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 3, 2016. North Korea ons launches when an- the country. It said the
fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Thursday, Seoul officials said, gered at international con- sanctions would not result
just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on Pyongyang in two demnation. in the country’s collapse or
decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch. The screen reads “North Korea Thursday’s firings were seen prevent it from launching
launched missiles.” as a “low-level” response more rockets.
to the U.N. sanctions, with The U.N. sanctions include
(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) North Korea unlikely to mandatory inspections of
launch any major provo- cargo leaving and enter-
HYUNG-JIN KIM clear test and long-range before landing in the sea, cation until its landmark rul- ing North Korea by land,
Associated Press rocket launch. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs ing Workers’ Party conven- sea or air; a ban on all sales
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The firings also came shortly of Staff said in a statement. tion in May, according to or transfers of small arms
North Korea fired six short- after South Korea’s Nation- It wasn’t immediately Yang Moo-jin, a professor and light weapons to the
range projectiles into the al Assembly passed its first known exactly what North at the University of North North; and the expulsion
sea off its east coast Thurs- legislation on human rights Korea fired, and the pro- Korean Studies in Seoul. of North Korean diplomats
day, South Korean officials in North Korea. jectiles could be missiles, North Korea has not is- who engage in “illicit ac-
said, just hours after the The North Korean projec- artillery or rockets, South sued an official reaction tivities.”
U.N. Security Council ap- tiles, fired from the eastern Korea’s Defense Ministry to the new U.N. sanctions. In Beijing, Foreign Minis-
proved the toughest sanc- coastal town of Wonsan, said. But citizens in its capital, try spokesman Hong Lei
tions on the North in two flew about 100 to 150 ki- North Korea routinely test- Pyongyang, interviewed said China, North Korea’s
decades for its recent nu- lometers (60 to 90 miles) fires missiles and rockets, by The Associated Press closest ally, hoped the U.N.
said Thursday they believe sanctions would be imple-
their country can fight off mented “comprehensively
any sanctions. and seriously,” while harm
“No kind of sanctions will to ordinary North Korean
ever work on us, because citizens would be avoided.
we’ve lived under U.S. At the United Nations, Rus-
sanctions for more than sia’s ambassador, Vitaly
half a century,” said Pyong- Churkin, asked about the
yang resident Song Hyo Il. North’s firing of short-range
“And in the future, we’re projectiles, said, “It means
going to build a powerful that they’re not drawing
and prosperous country the proper conclusions
here, relying on our own yet.” Japan’s U.N. ambas-
development.” sador, Motohide Yoshika-
North Korean state media wa, said, “That’s their way
earlier warned that the im- of reacting to what we
position of new sanctions have decided.”
would be a “grave provo- “They may do something
cation” that shows “ex- more,” Yoshikawa said. “So
we will see.”
US delivers 8 Black Hawks to Jordan to fight IS In January, North Korea
conducted its fourth nu-
SAM McNEIL Jordanian troops killed sev- capital of Amman that “as low over the seven others clear test, which it claimed
Associated Press en suspected IS-linked mili- you employ these aircraft parked on the tarmac. was a hydrogen bomb.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — tants in a raid in the north in the fight against Da’esh, U.S. officials said eight more Last month, it put a satellite
The United States gave Jor- of the country. The suspects please know that we are Black Hawks of an upgrad- into orbit with a long-range
dan eight refurbished heli- had allegedly plotted at- honored to partner with ed type are to be delivered rocket that the United Na-
copters on Thursday for the tacks in Jordan. you.” Da’esh is an alterna- to Jordan by the end of tions and others saw as a
battle against Islamic State Alice Wells, the U.S. ambas- tive Arabic acronym for the 2017, as part of a U.S. mili- cover for a test of banned
extremists along the king- sador to Jordan, said in a Islamic State group. tary aid package of sev- ballistic missile technology.
dom’s borders. handover ceremony Thurs- The ambassador said the eral hundred million dollars. Just before the U.N. sanc-
Pro-Western Jordan is part day that the delivery of the helicopters will also help Wells said the U.S. has also tions were unanimously
of a U.S.-led military coali- Black Hawks is part of on- secure Jordan’s borders, expedited delivery of more adopted, South Korea’s
tion against IS, which con- going military support for which are currently being than 26,000 rifles and ma- National Assembly passed
trols large parts of neigh- Jordan that also includes monitored with a U.S.-built chine guns, more than 3 a bill that would establish a
boring Syria and Iraq. additional guns and surveil- electronic detection sys- million rounds of small arms center tasked with collect-
The kingdom also faces in- lance equipment. tem. ammunition, hundreds of ing, archiving and publish-
ternal threats from IS sym- Wells told her hosts at Mar- After she spoke, one of bombs and 5,000 night vi- ing information about hu-
pathizers. Earlier this week, ka military airport in the the helicopters swooped sion devices to Jordan.q man rights in North Korea.q