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North Korea Fires Short-Range Projectiles After New UN Sanctions
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Soldiers stand in front of a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, on Feb. 15.
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North Korea signaled its defiance over new United Nations sanctions to curb its nuclear ambitions by test firing short-range projectiles in waters off the divided peninsula.
The isolated nation fired a set of projectiles into its eastern waters around 10 a.m. on Thursday in Seoul, about 10 hours after the UN Security Council unanimously approved new sanctions to punish Pyongyang for a nuclear test and rocket launch earlier this year. South Korea’s Defense Ministry initially said North Korea had fired missiles, later changing the language to projectiles.