North Korean leader Kim Jong Un once again supervised a \u201cnew weapon\u201d launch, state media said on Saturday, complicating efforts at denuclearisation ahead of next week\u2019s visit to Seoul by the US envoy to Pyongyang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pyongyang has routinely expressed anger at the war games, but in the past has avoided carrying out tests while the manoeuvres are taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The KCNA report came after Pyongyang called South Korean President Moon Jae-in \u201cimpudent\u201d for hoping to resume inter-Korean talks while continuing military drills with Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday\u2019s launch was the North\u2019s sixth test in recent weeks as it protests against the annual US-South Korea military exercises which Pyongyang considers rehearsals for invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Defence officials in Seoul said Pyongyang fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, that flew some 230 kilometres before splashing down in the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plans to resume working-level talks between the North and Washington appear to have stalled since an impromptu June meeting between leaders of the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But US President Donald Trump, who has been playing down Pyongyang\u2019s tests, said last week that he had received a \u201cvery beautiful letter\u201d from Kim.He also agreed with Kim\u2019s opposition to the war games–albeit for financial rather than military reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen Biegun, the US special envoy for North Korea, would travel to Japan and South Korea next week for talks on denuclearising the North, the Us State Department said on Friday.The North has said nuclear talks would be \u201cstrictly\u201d between Pyongyang and Washington, refusing to hold separate dialogue with the South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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