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North Korea has fired at least one unidentified projectile from its western area, South Korea’s military said, in what is the second such launch in the last five days.
The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff had no other immediate details of the Thursday afternoon launch.
North Korea and the United States are currently deadlocked in diplomacy meant to rid the North of its nuclear arsenal.
The launch came hours after the North through its state media described its earlier firing of rocket artillery and an apparent short-range ballistic missile on Saturday as a regular and defensive military exercise, and ridiculed South Korea for criticising the launches.
South Korea responded to Saturday’s action by the North by calling for an end to acts that escalate military tension.
Saturday’s launch of a short-range missile from another east coast area was the North’s first test of a ballistic missile since it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.
At that time, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared its nuclear force was complete and extended an olive branch to the South and the United States, holding two summit meetings with US President Donald Trump and three with the South Korean leader.
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