SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday fired a short-range missile into the East Sea, a Seoul military official said, a day after firing three short-range guided missiles off the Korean Peninsula's east coast. North Korea fired the missile Sunday afternoon, the official said on the condition of anonymity, adding that the missile was fired in a northeasterly direction, away from South Korea.

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- Nam Duck-woo, a former prime minister and finance minister who led the country's rapid economic development in the 1970s, died of complications from testicular cancer at a Seoul hospital late Saturday, his family said. He was 89. Nam had been battling testicular cancer for the past few years and his condition had worsened with age, his family added.

South Korea on Sunday condemned North Korea's short-range missile launches the previous day as "provocative" and urged Pyongyang to "act responsibly," South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. "We find it deplorable that the North does not stop provocative actions such as the launch of missiles yesterday," unification ministry spokesman Kim Hyung Seok said in a statement quoted by Yonhap. Seoul called on North Korea to "take responsible actions" for the sake of the international community.

North Korea has replaced the No. 2 figure at its defense ministry, according to the country's official media, marking the second change in the ministry's top leadership to be revealed in recent days. The Korean Central News Agency, monitored in Beijing, carried a report saying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited an army factory accompanied by officials including Jon Chang Bok, whom KCNA identified as "first vice minister of the People's Armed Forces." That position was previously held by Hyon Chol Hae.