英闻天下——271 S. Korea Deploys Cruise Missile to Deter DPRK Threat（在线收听） |
The South Korean defence ministry says it has deployed cruise missiles to counter a possible attack by North Korea after Pyongyang carried out its third underground nuclear test on Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok made the revelations at a regular news briefing in Seoul.
"We have developed them ourselves to immediately strike the whole area of North Korea, if necessary. There's a possibility that North Korea could conduct another nuclear test in another tunnel, so we are closely watching it."
South Korea is now allowed to develop ballistic missiles with a range of up to 800 kilometers, under a deal revised last year with the U.S. It more than doubles the previous limit.
Meantime, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-hwan have exchanged views on the current situation on the Korean Peninsula.
The Chinese government issued a statement, saying the country is "strongly dissatisfied with" and "firmly opposed to" North Korea's nuclear test.
Yang Jiechi has also spoken to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and summoned the North Korean ambassador to China to lodge a solemn representations over the test.
In a separate telephone conversation leaders of Japan and South Korea agreed to seek tougher UN sanctions against North Korea.
North Korea announced it succeeded in it's third underground nuclear test in the northern part of the country earlier on Tuesday. |
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