The North's projectile launches and demand for new proposals on Tuesday were apparently aimed at pressuring the US to make concessions.
North Korea has launched at least two unidentified projectiles toward the sea, South Korea's military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States.
The military said South Korea would monitor possible additional launches by North Korea but gave no further details like exactly what projectile North Korea fired.Tuesday's launches were the eighth such launches since late July. The previous seven launches have revealed short-range missile and rocket artillery systems that experts say would potentially expand its capabilities to strike targets throughout South Korea, including US military bases there.
Kim had made a days-long train trip to the Vietnamese capital to obtain the sanctions relief he needs to revitalise his country's troubled economy. In recent months, North Korea has carried out a slew of missile and rocket tests to protest joint military drills between the US and South Korea that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal. Some experts said the North Korean weapons tests were also a demonstration of its expanding weapons arsenal aimed at boosting its leverage ahead of new talks.
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