North Korea Fires Short-Range Missiles For 2nd Time In 5 Days
Seoul, South Korea -- South Korea's military said Thursday that North Korea had fired projectiles from the western part of the country into the sea. A U.S. official confirmed to CBS News national security correspondent David Martin that "two or three short range ballistic missiles" were fired by North Korea's military. It was the second such launch in just five days.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said U.S. and South Korean intelligence agencies were still assessing information on the launches.
The new launches came amid deadlocked diplomacy between North Korea and the United States aimed at, from the U.S. side at least, ridding the North of its nuclear arsenal. They were also carried out during a visit to South Korea by the Trump administration's Special Representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, who was meeting South Korean officials in Seoul, "to discuss efforts to advance the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea," according to the State Department.
