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SEOUL -North Korea fired several short-range missiles off its west coast on Friday, a South Korean news agency reported, in what analysts saw as a show of anger at Washington and the new conservative government in Seoul.The launch comes a day after the North expelled South Korean officials from a joint industrial complex north of the border after Seoul told its prickly neighbor the clean up its human rights and stop dragging its feet in nuclear disarmament talks."North Korea is understood to have shot several missiles, seen as short-range, in the West Sea (Yellow Sea)," Yonhap news agency cited a government source as saying.South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff declined to comment.New South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has said he wanted to end the free ride given to North Korea under 10 years of left-leaning presidents who gave billions in aid while asking for little in return, seeing it as the price to pay for stability.Lee's government has said it is ready to invest heavily in the impoverished state provided the North meets conditions such as taking apart its nuclear arms program or returning the more than 1,000 South Koreans it kidnapped or kept in the country after the 1950-53 Korean War.Pyongyang was basically sending two messages, Keio University Korea expert Masao Okonogi said in Tokyo.One was aimed at the United States after talks in Geneva, showing the North's dissatisfaction with Washington's pressure to come clean on uranium enrichment and ties with Syria, he said.The other was a riposte to the Lee government's shift in stance.
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