Display of South Korean missiles in 2012. (Creative Commons, Daniel Foster)

Pentagon spokesman George Little called the movement a “provocation pause,” and said it was “obviously beneficial” to normalizing relations on the Korean peninsula, said the Daily Beast, as annual U.S.-South Korea military drills came to an end a week ago.

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It looked like Pyongyang was preparing for a missile launch last month after having threatened attacks in the area. The threats followed strict new U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea in March after the country launched its third nuclear test, ignoring warnings from the U.S. and UN.

North Korea moved its ready-to-launch Musudan missiles, intermediate-range ballistic missiles, on the eve of a summit in Washington between Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye.

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