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Seoul, Dec 18, North Korea fired an unspecified ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Monday, the South Korean military said, just hours after it launched a short-range missile, amid speculation the latest one could be an intercontinental ballistic missile. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch but did not give further details, Yonhap news agency reported. North Korea fired a short-range missile from in or around Pyongyang at 10:38 p.m. Sunday, and it flew about 570 km before splashing into the East Sea, according to the JCS. The back-to-back missile launches came after South Korea's…