By Xinhua
Seoul : South Korea on Friday appealed for calmness over missile test-firing by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) earlier in the day.
“The government regards the North (DPRK)’s missile firing as merely a part of its ordinary military training,” said Presidential Spokesman Lee Dong-kwan at a news briefing.
President Lee Myung-bak was briefed on the news of missile launches while presiding over a meeting of senior presidential secretaries, but the president didn’t show any extraordinary response, said the spokesman.
The DPRK test-fired several short-range missiles into the sea off its western coast at 10:30 a.m. Friday (0130 GMT), local media reported earlier.
The reported launches came a day after South Korea withdrew officials from the inter-Korean industrial complex in the DPRK under DPRK’s demand.