SEOUL: North Korea rejected on Wednesday condemnation by the United Nations chief of its recent ballistic missile launches, saying it was "unfair and unbalanced" and ignored Pyongyang's right to self-defense.

The nuclear-armed North has fired three banned missiles in the past five days, including an intercontinental ballistic missile test Pyongyang said showed its capacity for a "fatal nuclear counterattack on the hostile forces."

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