North Korea fires two unidentified projectiles: South's military
02 March, 2020
North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles on Monday (Mar 2), the South's military said, weeks after Pyongyang declared its moratorium on long-range missile tests over.
Both devices were fired eastwards over the sea from the Wonsan area on the east coast, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
"The military is monitoring for additional launches and maintaining readiness," the statement added.
The North completed a number of weapons tests late last year, the last of these in November, often describing them as multiple launch rocket systems, although others called them ballistic missiles.
It also completed static engine tests, lately in December.
At a celebration meeting towards the end of this month, leader Kim Jong Un declared that Pyongyang no longer considered itself bound by its moratoriums on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, and threatened a demonstration of a "new strategic weapon" soon.
The move was included with nuclear negotiations with the united states at a standstill and as a unilateral deadline Pyongyang set Washington to provide it fresh concessions on sanctions relief expired.
Pyongyang has previously fired missiles with the capacity of reaching the complete US mainland and has carried out six nuclear tests, the last of these 16 times stronger than the Hiroshima blast, in line with the highest estimates.
It really is under multiple sets of sanctions over its weapons programmes from the US Security Council, US, South and other bodies.
Heightened tensions in 2017 were followed by two years of nuclear diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington, including three meetings between Kim and US President Donald Trump, but little tangible progress was made.
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