(RT) – North Korea has fired a short-range missile eastward from the city of Wonsan on its east coast, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. The North “fired a missile from its east coast town of Wonsan in the eastern direction at 9:06 a.m. today,” the agency reported, quoting South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). South Korean and US authorities are reportedly analyzing the firing.
Disarmament talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump collapsed in Hanoi earlier this year when the US leader refused to relax sanctions without unconditional denuclearization. Following a summit in Vladivostok last month, Vladimir Putin affirmed Russia’s support for gradual nuclear disarmament in exchange for sanctions relief. READ MORE
