Kim Jong Un personally observed N. Korea's latest missile drills, meant to aggravate Washington
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over Saturday's drills and stressed that his front-line troops should keep a “high alert posture” and enhance combat ability to “defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country.”
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said “several projectiles” had been launched an area near the coastal town of Wonsan and that they flew up to 200 kilometres before splashing into the sea toward the northeast. That roughly matched the distance between the area and the South Korean capital of Seoul, although the North in Sunday's report did not issue any direct threat or warning toward the South and the United States.
Trump added: “He also knows that I am with him & does not want to break his promise to me. Deal will happen!” North Korea wants widespread sanctions relief in return for disarmament moves that the United States has rejected as insufficient. In a sign of Pyongyang's growing frustration, it has recently demanded that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo be removed from nuclear negotiations and criticized national security adviser John Bolton.
There has not been a confirmed ballistic missile test by North Korea since its November 2017 test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which demonstrated potential capability to reach deep into the U.S. mainland. That year saw a string of increasingly powerful weapons tests from the North and a belligerent response from President Donald Trump that had many in the region fearing war.
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