North Korea tested rocket launchers and 'tactical guided weapons'
North Korean state media said Sunday that leader Kim Jong Un had overseen a rocket and tactical guided weapons test, after the drill Saturday raised concerns Pyongyang was escalating provocations with US nuclear negotiations deadlocked.
A return to missile launches would be likely to infuriate US President Donald Trump, but the North's official KCNA news agency shied away from the term in its report, saying Kim had ordered a"strike drill" involving"long-range multiple rocket launchers" -- which are not targeted by UN sanctions resolutions -- and unspecified"tactical guided weapons".
But despite the latest sabre-rattling from Pyongyang, Trump insisted that a breakthrough was possible. Pompeo, speaking Sunday on ABC, said the rockets were relatively short range, had crossed no international boundary, had landed in waters east of North Korea"and didn't present a threat to the United States or to South Korea or Japan."
But with negotiations lagging, the North appears to be testing the US while staying below that threshold. On Friday, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Pyongyang should show"visible, concrete and substantial" denuclearisation action if it wants sanctions relief -- the issue at the centre of the Hanoi debacle.
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