SEOUL – Plans by a German arms manufacturer to sell high-tech cruise missiles to South Korea has angered North Korean diplomats, the Moscow-based Interfax news agency said on Monday.

The deal for 170 air-to-surface ‘Taurus’ missiles is reportedly worth $300m, a North Korean “diplomatic source” said, and represents a “hostile move” by Germany.

“In case Germany is still bent on supplying these dangerous offensive weapons which even the USA did not resolve to sell, this will become evidence of voluntary deviation from the official policy of establishing peace and security on the Korean Peninsula that has been proclaimed by these