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Input: (2nd LD) N. Korea fires projectile into sea for third day 
  
 SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired another short-range projectile into the East Sea on Monday, marking the third straight day of launches, South Korea's defense ministry said."North Korea again launched a short-range projectile that appears to be a KN-02 (surface-to-surface) missile," said a ministry official. "We are closely watching the movements of the North's military in case of further launches."Monday's launch occurred between 11 a.m. and noon.North Korea has launched a total of five short-range projectiles in the past three days, including three on Saturday and one on Sunday."We are currently trying to determine what the projectile was and the North's intentions (behind the launch)," said a military official. "It appears that the North is trying to renew military tensions on the Korean Peninsula."The projectile, which was fired from a mobile launcher off North Korea's east coast, flew about 120 kilometers in the northeasterly direction before falling into the sea, officials said.The other four projectiles are also thought to have had a range of about 120 kilometers."Whether it's a test-firing or armed demonstration, North Korea should not engage in tension-creating acts," Kim Jang-soo, head of the national security office, was quoted as saying by presidential spokeswoman Kim Haing.The launch was immediately reported to President Park Geun-hye. The national security office and the defense ministry are closely monitoring the situation, the spokeswoman said.North Korea claimed the firing of projectiles is "a normal military exercise.""Conducting military drills to build up a strong deterrence capability is a legitimate right of any sovereign country," said the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, which is in charge of inter-Korean relations.It added that South Korea and the United States were engaged in vicious anti-Pyongyang activities by making issue of the projectile launches.The launches come after the North has toned down its saber-rattling in the past few weeks after South Korea and the United States concluded the annual Foal Eagle military drills on April 30.(END) ||||| SEOUL North Korea fired two short-range missiles on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military drills. 
  
 South Korea's Defense Ministry said North Korea had fired one missile on Monday morning and a second one in the afternoon. Both were fired into the sea off North Korea's east coast, a ministry official said. 
  
 The launches come hard on the heels of more than two months of threats from North Korea that it would wage a nuclear war against South Korea and the United States if it were attacked. 
  
 The North condemned joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises, that ended in late April, as a rehearsal for an attack on its territory. 
  
 "We are conducting intense military exercises to strengthen our defense capacity," North Korea's KCNA news agency quoted the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, the body that handles inter-Korean issues, as saying on Monday. 
  
 "Our military is conducting these exercises in order to cope with the mounting war measures from the U.S. and South Korea, which is the legitimate right of any sovereign country." 
  
 North Korea frequently fires short-range missiles, although the current spate of launches has drawn criticism from South Korea and the United States after the recent threats from the North. 
  
 Seoul on Monday condemned the launches for stoking tension in the region while Beijing, the North's sole major ally, called for restraint. 
  
 "These launches are its tactic of signaling to the world that the regime is willing to negotiate now, while at the same time saving face," Kim Yeon-su, a professor at Korea National Defense University in Seoul, which is part of the Defense Ministry, said of North Korea. 
  
 Kim said that North Korea had an arsenal of hundreds of short- and medium-range missiles. 
  
 There appears to be little prospect of talks between North Korea and the United States as Washington insists that Pyongyang needs to abandon its nuclear weapons program, something the isolated and impoverished state has said it will not do. 
  
 (Editing by Robert Birsel) |||||
Output:
North Korea launched two more short-range missiles into the sea today, the third consecutive day of launches since three missiles were test-fired Saturday and a fourth yesterday. Pyongyang, not surprisingly, today blamed recent joint US-South Korea military exercises, Reuters reports. "Our military is conducting these exercises in order to cope with the mounting war measures from the US and South Korea, which is the legitimate right of any sovereign country," the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said, according to state media. The first missile launched today is believed to be a KN-02 surface-to-surface missile, a South Korean defense ministry official says. It flew about 75 miles before dropping into the sea, Yonhap News reports; the first four projectiles are thought to have the same range. A second missile was launched this afternoon, the New York Times adds. South Korea is still calling for the North to cut it out, but a defense ministry official notes, "We remain vigilant for the possibility that the North may launch more" missiles and rockets.