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Seoul May Ask UNSC to Probe Pyongyang's Short-Range Missile Launch

© REUTERS / KCNAA North Korean long-range rocket is launched into the air at the Sohae rocket launch site in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang February 7, 2016.
A North Korean long-range rocket is launched into the air at the Sohae rocket launch site in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang February 7, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Seoul is considering sending a request to the UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions panel to open an investigation into Pyongyang's launch of two short-range missiles, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North had fired two short-range missiles in the direction of the Sea of Japan.

"The government is consulting with other nations over diplomatic responses [to the missile launch] and considering other necessary steps, including sending a letter to the UNSC sanctions panel," the ministry's spokesman, Cho June-hyuck, told reporters, as quoted by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

A new multiple launch rocket system is test fired in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang March 4, 2016 - Sputnik International
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The spokesman stressed that any launch that uses ballistic missile technology violated of UNSC resolutions.

Since the beginning of 2016, North Korea has conducted a nuclear test, its fourth to date, and launched a long-range rocket, in defiance of UNSC resolutions.

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