article_snippet: Making a statement: South Korean TV shows the two missile tests by the North today.
article_snippet: North Korea regularly conducts test firings of missiles, rockets and artillery, but North Korea are often timed to express North Korea's dissatisfaction with actions by Washington and Seoul.
article_snippet: UN resolutions prohibit any ballistic missile test by North Korea, and Spokesman Kim Min-seok said Pyongyang appeared intent on triggering a 'security crisis'. '
article_snippet: We will respond sternly and strongly to any provocation,' Spokesman Kim Min-seok added.
article_snippet: Uncompromising: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken an aggressive stance against the West . '
article_snippet: North Korea has threatened attacks, including nuclear strikes, on the U.S. before, although North Korea has never demonstrated North Korea missiles could reach the U.S..
article_snippet: North Korea has carried out three nuclear tests - in 2006, 2009 and 2013.
article_snippet: In January, the North offered a moratorium on further tests if this year's joint drills were cancelled - a proposal rejected by Washington as an 'implicit threat' to carry out a fourth atomic detonation.
article_snippet: People floating anti-Pyongyang flyers by balloon could be targeted .
article_snippet: Jeung Young-Tae, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul, said Pyongyang was unlikely to conduct a fourth test just to protest against the exercises. '
article_snippet: Nuclear tests carry more significance than that,' Jeung Young-Tae, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul said. '
article_snippet: On the other hand, there is the chance of a mid- or long-range missile test. '
article_snippet: I would say that a demonstration that North Korea could deliver a nuclear warhead would be more threatening to the world than an actual nuclear test'.
article_snippet: In a further sign of rising tensions, North Korean state-run website Uriminzokkiri warned today of a fierce response to any attempt by South Korean activists to float anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border by balloon. 'a fierce response to any attempt by South Korean activists to float anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border by balloon might not just be a few shots of gunfire but cannons or missiles,' North Korean state-run website Uriminzokkiri warned today of a fierce response to any attempt by South Korean activists to float anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border by balloon. ' said.