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N. Korea's missile launches show improved accuracy: S. Korea+
SEOUL, July 6 (AP) - (Kyodo)—South Korea's Defense Ministry said Monday that North Korea's missile launches conducted on Saturday showed an improvement in accuracy.
"We are aware accuracy has been improved (in the North's missile launches," ministry spokesman Won Tae Jae told a press briefing.
Won said North Korea's missiles launches have had "somewhat big margins of error" in terms of landing at intended points so far.
"Much improvement has been made this time in that regard," Won said, declining to go into details.
North Korea fired seven missiles into the Sea of Japan in defiance of a U.N. Security Council resolution banning it from launching missiles.
The South Korean Defense Ministry believes that some of the missiles fired Saturday were the intermediate-range Rodong missiles, their shortened flight distance apparently aimed at testing their accuracy.
