S. -north Korean relations and without the prospect of serious talks, Pyongyang ended the moratorium in 2006 and conducted long-range missile launches that year and in 2009.

鉴于普遍恶化的美朝关系，以及正式会谈前景不明，平壤开始了2006年中断的试验，并于当年和2009年进行了远程导弹发射。

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But missile attacks on ships are rare, so it is difficult to know just how safe a ship really is-especially if an attacker launches a dozen or so missiles at once.

但舰船受到导弹攻击的案例非常少，因此很难判断一条战舰躲过导弹攻击的劫数有多大，特别是在攻击者一次发射十多枚导弹的情况下。

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Apart from the six launch facilities supporting missile testing, an impact zone located 100km northwest of Dunhuang provides targets for weapons fired in test and training launches.

除了上述6个发射基地用于导弹测试之外，位于敦煌以北100公里处的一个弹着点目标区被做为导弹测试及训练发射的目标。

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Dan Pinkston,a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, warned against reading too much into the missile launches as a political message.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

"Obviously missile launches of that nature are unhelpful and potentially destabilizing, and are frowned upon by us and others in the region,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

South Korea said it was monitoring for any further military activity in the North following Saturday's missile launches.

WSJ: North Korea Fires Missiles Into Sea

Seoul said it was monitoring for any further military activity in the North following missile launches Saturday and Sunday.

WSJ: North Korea Fires Another Missile Sunday

Japan is also deploying a homegrown fleet of spy satellites and radar to detect ballistic missile launches hundreds of miles offshore.

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