朝鮮再次發射短程導彈

South Korea says North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Sea off its east coast, in the latest response by the isolated regime to newly imposed international sanctions and ongoing joint U.S.-South Korean military drills.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile was fired late Tuesday near the North Korean port city of Wonan and flew about 200 kilometers before hitting a target on land.

Pyongyang fired five short-range missiles last Monday (March 21) into the East Sea from the eastern city of Hamhung. The week before it fired medium range missiles into the sea in defiance of United Nations sanctions imposed over the North's fourth nuclear test in January, followed a month later by a test of a long-range rocket.

North Korea has been threatening for weeks to initiate preemptive nuclear strikes against Washington and Seoul to protest South Korea - U.S. military drills. The North sees the drills as a rehearsal for a military invasion.韓國表示，朝鮮在其東部海域發射了一枚短程導彈。此次導彈發射是朝鮮對受到的新一輪國際制裁和正在進行的美韓聯合軍事演習做出的最新迴應。

韓國聯合參謀本部表示，朝鮮是週二下午在其港口城市元山附近發射這枚導彈的。導彈飛行了約200公里之後擊中陸地上一處目標。

平壤上週一（3月21日）在東部城市咸興市發射了五枚短程導彈。一週前，朝鮮無視聯合國針對朝鮮今年一月第四次核試驗所做出的制裁，向其海域發射了多枚中程導彈，朝鮮二月份又進行了遠程火箭的測試。

朝鮮最近幾週一直在威脅要對華盛頓和首爾進行先發制人的核打擊，以抗議韓美軍事演習。朝鮮將韓美軍演視爲兩國軍事入侵朝鮮的預演。