A North Korean military vehicle passes by during a parade in Pyongyang, April 15, 2013.<\/p>\n
South Korean media say North Korea is deploying \u00cb\u0153improved multiple rocket launchers\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 at its front-line military units.\n<\/p>\n
South Korea\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s official news agency Yonhap quoted an unnamed government official as saying, \u00c5\u201cWe are detecting signs that the North is deploying the improved 240-mm-caliber multiple rocket launchers; and the signs are showing up at some western and eastern front-line military units.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The new rocket launchers are capable of hitting targets beyond the South Korean capital, Seoul.\n<\/p>\n
North Korea is believed to have deployed multiple rocket launchers with different caliber sizes of 107mm and 122mm along the border with the South.\n<\/p>\n
The Korean Peninsula has been locked in a cycle of military rhetoric over the past few months.\n<\/p>\n
Last week, North Korea vowed to strengthen its nuclear deterrent in the face of \u00c5\u201cthreats of war\u201d from the United States and a \u00c5\u201cpolicy of confrontation\u201d from South Korea.\n<\/p>\n
An editorial in Pyongyang\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s ruling party daily, the Rodong Sinmun<\/i>, said that \u00c5\u201creckless\u201d war activities by the United States and South Korea could provoke a nuclear war.\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cAs long as the United States and South Korean puppets continue with nuclear threats and threats of war against us, we will\u2026 strengthen nuclear deterrence through every possible means.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cUnless there is a fundamental switchover in the policy of confrontation of the South\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s ruling forces, dialogue and improvement in relations between the North and the South cannot be realized forever,\u201d the North Korean daily stated.\n<\/p>\n
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