SEOUL — North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday (July 19), hours after an American nuclear-armed submarine made its first South Korean port call in decades.
The launch was reported by South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff , according to Yonhap, who said they were fired early Wednesday from the Sunan area in Pyongyang, and flew some 550km before splashing into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.
The launches are the latest in a series of weapons tests by Pyongyang, and come as Seoul and Washington ramp up defence cooperation in the face of soaring tensions with the North. The move had been expected to trigger a strong response from North Korea, which baulks at having US nuclear assets deployed around the Korean peninsula.
Diplomacy between Pyongyang and Seoul has stalled and Mr Kim has called for ramping up weapons development, including tactical nukes.
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