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N. Korea threatens more launches after fourth test in 12 days

People watch file footage of a North Korean missile launch on television news at a station in Seoul.

North Korea threatened Tuesday to carry out more weapons tests after it fired its fourth pair of projectiles in less than two weeks following the start of joint exercises between the US and the South.

The rising temperature on the peninsula threatens to derail putative negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington, with the North saying the combined drills were a "flagrant violation" of the process.

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