Israeli Media Report N. Korea Missile Tests
JERUSALEM — State-run radio and television in Israel reported Saturday that North Korea had made four successful test launches of a ground-to-ground ballistic missile thought to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
The broadcasts quoted sources in the South Korean Defense Ministry and military sources in Tokyo as saying the tests were detected by U.S., Japanese and South Korean spy planes and ships and by U.S. and Russian satellites.
They said the missile, thought to have a range of 600 miles and to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, was fired for distances of 60 to 300 miles. They did not say when the tests took place.
The deputy director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry met a ranking official of the North Korean Communist Party on June 27 to discuss Israeli fears that North Korea might sell missiles to Iran that could reach Israel.
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