Pyongyang fires 'ballistic missile' during Blinken's visit to Seoul, second of 2024. This launch comes at a time when the American Secretary of State… is in South Korea.

This ballistic missile launch is the second of its kind carried out by Pyongyang in 2024, after that, on January 14, of a machine equipped with a hypersonic warhead. It comes days after the end of joint US-South Korean military exercises. Pyongyang warned that the United States and South Korea would pay a "high price" for the maneuvers.