North Korea threatens to fire more missiles

As the United Nations deadlocked over a response to North Korean missile tests, Pyongyang threatened to conduct more tests on Thursday.

North Korea called the tests successful and made no mention of a missile failure as reported by the United States.


South Korean students view a model of a North Korean Scud-B missile at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul Thursday, July 6, 2006. AP/Ahn Young-joon photo via Yahoo News.

"Our military will continue with missile launch drills in the future as part of efforts to strengthen self-defense deterrent," a foreign ministry statement said. "If anyone intends to dispute or add pressure about this, we will have to take stronger physical actions in other forms."

"The successful missile launches were part of our military's regular military drills to strengthen self defense," said the statement.