webfact Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 North Korea fires missiles into sea, says South Korea, nuclear talks in doubt By Joyce Lee North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a submarine factory in an undisclosed location, North Korea, in this undated picture released by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 23, 2019. KCNA via REUTERS SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired two short-range missiles early on Thursday from its eastern coast, South Korea's military said, the first missile test since leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to revive stalled denuclearisation talks. The missiles launched from near Wonsan flew about 430 km (267 miles) and reached an altitude of 50 km (30 miles) before falling into the East Sea, an official at South Korea's defence ministry told Reuters. Japan's Kyodo News said, citing an unnamed government source, that the missiles did not reach Japan's exclusive economic zone and had no impact on Japan's national security. The firing of ballistic missiles would cast new doubts on efforts to restart denuclearisation talks after Trump and Kim met at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) at the end of June. The White House, Pentagon and U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A senior U.S. administration official said: “We are aware of reports of a short-range projectile launched from North Korea. We have no further comment.” Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton, who has taken a hardline towards North Korea, made no mention of the launches in a tweet on Thursday morning after a visit to South Korea, referring only to “productive meetings” with South Korean officials on regional security and building a stronger alliance. The United States and North Korea vowed to soon hold new rounds of working-level talks, but Pyongyang has since sharply criticised upcoming joint military drills by U.S. and South Korean troops. North Korea's Foreign Ministry said earlier this month that Washington's pattern of "unilaterally reneging on its commitments" by holding military exercises with South Korea was leading Pyongyang to reconsider its own commitments to discontinue tests of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. “North Korea is clearly upset that the U.S. and South Korea are conducting joint military exercises," said Harry Kazianis of Washington's Center for the National Interest. "We should not be shocked by this move and, in fact, we should have seen it coming.” North Korea's last weapons testing in May included short-range missiles as well as smaller rockets. At the time, Kim oversaw the first flight of a previously untested weapon - a relatively small, fast missile that experts believe will be easier to hide, launch and manoeuvre in flight. On Tuesday, state news agency KCNA reported that Kim inspected a large, newly built submarine, accompanied by missile programme leaders. It potentially signalled continued development of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) programme. Denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the United States have stalled after a second summit between Trump and Kim in Vietnam in February broke down. Trump has repeatedly stressed his good relationship with Kim and is keen for a big foreign policy win as he campaigns for re-election in 2020. When Trump and Kim met last month he said they had agreed to resume working-level talks stalled since their failed summit in Hanoi in February. On Monday, Trump stressed North Korea's freeze in testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, which has been in place since 2017, and positive recent exchanges. "There was a little correspondence recently,” he said. “We had very positive correspondence with North Korea. Again there's no nuclear testing, there's no missile testing, there's no nothing.” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week said the State Department had "a number of conversations with the North Koreans" and he hoped the talks with North Korea would begin soon. (Reporting by Joyce Lee and Josh Smith; Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom and Idrees Ali in Washington; Editing by Michael Perry) -- © Copyright Reuters 2019-07-25 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegman Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 No worries, Rocketman will write Trump another love latter and all will be good, 555. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tug Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Aww is little Kim lonesome Donald’s had a full day getting exposed and all he will get with you later try not to act out ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 6 hours ago, webfact said: North Korea fires missiles into sea KCNA further stated that the sea had insulted the dear Leader by reflecting him in a distorted way on a recent visit to a beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomfiddler Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Looks like L.F.B. hasn,t been getting enough attention of late ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyinNE Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 No new nuclear tests, no new ICBM trials. Sounds like better than what was before Trump. Might we consider giving some credit to Trump even though I would like to see more progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulesMad Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Come on! What is the world coming to, if you can't even fire a couple of short-range missiles into the sea? Most likely they are not the first country to do so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burma Bill Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Perhaps he was trying to put on a show like the rocket festival in Yasothon, Isaan:- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAMHERE Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Wonder if they were aiming at the sea .???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeray Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 12 hours ago, webfact said: Trump has repeatedly stressed his good relationship with Kim and is keen for a big foreign policy win as he campaigns for re-election in 2020. Oh, okay. Everything will be just fine on the peninsula because of "his good relationship with Kim". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 An offensive post has been reported and removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benmart Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 10 hours ago, neeray said: Oh, okay. Everything will be just fine on the peninsula because of "his good relationship with Kim". Never having ever been the President of the USA, my country of birth, I would imagine that forming a favorable relationship and dialog with any despot could open the possibility of improving a seemingly dangerous and volatile situation. Then again, I leave the diplomats on TVF to opine their wisdom and experience in these matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sujo Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 45 minutes ago, Benmart said: Never having ever been the President of the USA, my country of birth, I would imagine that forming a favorable relationship and dialog with any despot could open the possibility of improving a seemingly dangerous and volatile situation. Then again, I leave the diplomats on TVF to opine their wisdom and experience in these matters. You want to have a good relationship with a murderous despotic regime? perhaps you should leave the decisions to real diplomats and presidents who have all decided it is a bad decision to even recognise fat mans existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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