North Korea launched an unidentified projectile off its west coast today, South Korea’s military said.
The launch followed another by the North on April 19, in which it fired short-range missiles in what state media described as a demonstration of cluster bomb warheads.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has focused on expanding his nuclear and missile arsenals since nuclear diplomacy with US President Donald Trump collapsed in 2019.
Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to return to talks with Kim, but Pyongyang has so far ignored the overtures and urged Washington to drop demands for the North’s nuclear disarmament as a precondition for talks.
Kim has taken an increasingly hardline stance toward South Korea, which he has declared his country’s permanent and most hostile enemy, while diplomacy is stalled and tensions rise over his nuclear ambitions.
AP
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