North Korea announced testing of new missiles

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has announced that a new weapon will be tested under the leadership of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

As follows from the message of the TsNAK, we are talking about missiles. "As soon as the respected supreme leader gave the order to fire, the powerful Juche missiles fired dazzling lights as if they were announcing their birth," the Russian-language press release said.

. reported North Korea allegedly fired two short-range missiles on Saturday that flew about 400 kilometers, South Korea's Yonhap news agency This is the fifth such launch since the end of July.

The tests came amid a joint U.S.-South Korean exercise notes . , smaller in scale than a major exercise previously held and suspended amid increased U.S.-South Korea contacts with North Korea, Reuters

• On August 10, US President Donald Trump announced that he had received a "wonderful" letter from Kim Jong-un, in which he allegedly offered a "small apology" for conducting new missile tests and promised to stop them when the exercises were over.