South Korea says it has successfully launched its first underwater ballistic missile from a submarine. Seoul said the missile was fired from a 3,000-ton-class submarine and hit a designated target. Read more here:
The tit-for-tat launches come as China's foreign minister was in South Korea to discuss nuclear diplomacy - and two days after the North said it had fired a new long-range cruise missile.twice over the weekend and called it"a strategic weapon of great significance".It was North Korea's first known testing activity since March, when it launched a new short-range tactical missile.
Kim Jong Un has so far rejected the Biden administration's moves for dialogue, demanding Washington's"hostile" policies are dropped first.Not long ago, you couldn't go a week without a North Korean missile launch. But the country has been quieter for a while, perhaps while it dealt with COVID or challenging economic conditions.
More unusually, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Seoul to discuss the stalled nuclear diplomacy with President Moon Jae-in.
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