North Korea vowed Thursday to push ahead with further strategic guided-missile tests, seeing the Chinese president arrived in Seoul as a snub to Pyongyang.
North Korea has conducted a series of missile tests in the past week --
seen as a display of pique with Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Seoul.
China is North Korea's sole major ally for many years. However Xi has met four times
with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, he
has yet to sit down and talk with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
The United States said the recent missile launches as
"problematic", while Seoul and Tokyo also lodged
protests.
The first in the series of tests last Thursday was hailed by the North's
state media as that of a new "cutting-edge" guided missile which marked
a "breakthrough" in the North's military capabilities.
South Korean said the second test on Sunday was two short-range Scud missiles with a range of about 500 kilometres.
On Wednesday, the North fired two rockets with a range of around 180 kilometres (110 miles).
South Korean added that there is many possible motives for the multiple tests.
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