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North Korea today fired at least one more projectile launch, the South Korean military and Japanese officials said, a day after Pyongyang’s announcement of the resumption of nuclear talks with the U.S.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired an unidentified projectile this morning from around Wonsan, in southeast Kangwon province, towards the sea to the east.
Japan’s Coast Guard said North Korea had launched what appeared to be a missile. However, Japan’s chief government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, said it appeared two missiles were launched within minutes of each other and that the second of them fell in waters within Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
It came just a day after Pyongyang announced it had agreed with the US to hold working-level talks on Saturday, a development that could potentially break months of stalemate.
Meanwhile, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today strongly condemned North Korea’s latest launch of ballistic missiles and said it was a violation of United Nations resolutions. Abe told reporters Pyongyang had launched two ballistic missiles earlier in the day.