Seoul: Pyongyang fired two ballistic missiles on Wednesday, Seoul said, days after a similar launch that the nuclear-armed North described as a warning to the South over planned joint military drills with the United States.
The two devices were fired from the Wonsan area on the east coast at dawn and flew around 250 km, said South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“We stress a series of missile launches do not help ease tensions in the Korean Peninsula and urge the North to refrain from such acts,” they said in a statement.
The North is banned from ballistic missile lau-nches under UN Security Council resolutions but it was the second such firing in less than a week, despite a meeting betw-een leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in June.
Pyongyang and Washington are engaged in a long-running diplomatic process over the North’s nuclear and missile programmes that has seen three high-profile enc-ou-nters between their leaders in the space of a year.
They agreed to resume talks during their impro-mptu June encounter in the Demilitarised Zone that divides the peninsula, but that working-level dialogue has yet to begin.
