The North's missile tests present a hard challenge to Moon.North Korea, which could have a working nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile in the next several years, may also be the most urgent foreign policy concern for the Trump administration, which has been distracted by domestic political turmoil and has insisted China do more to rein in the North's weapons activities.
South Korea will hold off on installing remaining components of a USA anti-missile defence system until it completes an assessment of the system's impact on the environment, the country's presidential office said on Wednesday.
The missiles were fired from the North Korean eastern coastal town of Wonsan and likely flew about 200km (about 125 miles) with an altitude of about 2km (1.2 miles), South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. North Korea fired several suspected short-range anti-ship missiles off its east coast Thursday, .
During his campaign, Moon, who won the presidency last month, complained that the United States and the previous South Korean administration rushed to deploy the missile-defense system before the election to present him with a fait accompli.
North Korea unveiled a number of new weapons at a massive military parade on April 15 to mark the birth anniversary of the state's founding leader and has since tested some of them. "I think this might be what was used today". He warned that North Korea could only face further global isolation and more economic difficulties. His conservative predecessor, former President Park Geun-hye, was impeached for her alleged ties to a multi-million dollar corruption scandal. Considering that an environmental impact assessment typically takes a year, the complete deployment of the THAAD battery (which consists of an X-band radar and six launchers) will likely be delayed accordingly. But it made clear that it does not intend to remove the two launchers and the X-band radar that are already deployed at the golf course in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang Province. The Agency, said in an editorial that no matter the outcome of the environmental study, South Korea's announcement could reduce friction. "Obviously, the pressure China puts on South Korea has taken effect". "However, attitude is not everything. Without solving the problem of THAAD, the pain it has brought to bilateral relations will not disappear, and South Korea must swallow some of the bitter results". China should work with Russian Federation on counter-measures to THAAD, the agency added.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga also said this cruise missile test did not warrant a response by the United Nations.
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The first missile, detected by South Korean authorities at 6:18 a.m., was followed by "several more" projectiles for "several minutes".
Seoul, Tokyo and Washington were analysing the launches for further information, officials said.
They landed in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, where US aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson and USS Ronald Reagan participated in joint exercises with the South Korean navy that ended earlier this week.
Mr Roh said he believed the North was "showing off its capability with various types of missiles and demonstrating its anti-ship precision-strike ability in connection with joint maritime drills involving USA aircraft carrier strike groups".
Moon's decision to order an investigation into the deployment came amid signs of easing tensions between South Korea and China, North Korea's sole major diplomatic ally.
The isolated country, which has conducted dozens of missile tests and tested two nuclear bombs since the beginning of 2016 in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, says the programme is necessary to counter United States aggression.
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