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The White House has condemned North Korea’s announcement that it test-fired several short-range missiles today.

“This kind of activity is not constructive,” White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

Johndroe added that North Korea should instead be focused on delivering complete documentation of all its nuclear weapons activities.

North Korean analysts say today’s test was an angry response to U.S. and South Korea’s tougher stance toward Pyongyang.

Earlier, in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, the North’s Foreign Ministry turned blame on the United States saying, “We have treated the negotiations in a sincere manner but the more negotiations the more we are disappointed by the attitude of the Bush administration.”

The North Korean statement did not address the compliance issue directly.

“If the U.S. continues to insist [about] what does not exist, and delays the settlement of the nuclear issue, it would have a grave impact on the disablement of nuclear facilities.”

Pyongyang has denied it ever had a uranium enrichment program, whereas Washington has been suspecting the country of not only developing but proliferating the technology to Syria.

(ABC)

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