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Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll has written on North Korea since 2010 and writes between London and Seoul.
North Korea fired a short range missile into the East Sea on Friday afternoon, South Korean military sources told local media, the second reported launch of a projectile to occur this week alone.
The missile, which was fired from near Sondok airfield, Hamgyongnamdo, was reported to be a ballistic type, an anonymous military source told ROK national news agency Yonhap.