North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the latest missile fire, which was "the test shot of a new weapon," the official KCNA news agency said on Sunday. Kim Jong Un "took place in the observation post and guided the firing test," the agency said, adding that he had expressed "great satisfaction" with the result.
KCNA did not provide details of the weapons tested. According to the South Korean staff, they were two short-range ballistic missiles that, fired on Saturday at the dawn of northeastern North Korea, flew about 400 km before falling into the Japanese sea.
This new series of shots, the fifth in less than two weeks, took place in full US-South Korean annual military maneuvers. These exercises are considered by North Korea as a preparation for a possible invasion of its territory and as an obstacle to the announced resumption of talks with the United States on denuclearization.
"Little excuses" presented in the United States
US President Donald Trump revealed Saturday the contents of a letter sent to him by Kim Jong Un. The North Korean leader wants, he said, to resume negotiations on the thorny nuclear issue at the end of the military exercises conducted by the United States. United States and South Korea.
According to a morning tweet from the President of the United States, the strong man from Pyongyang also presented him with "small apologies" for the recent North Korean ballistic missile fire, which is clashing with Seoul and the majority of the major powers, but do not seem to bother the tenant of the White House too much, who does not cease to diminish its importance.
"He very kindly explained that he wanted us to meet and start negotiating as soon as the joint military maneuvers of the United States and South Korea are over," Donald Trump wrote in a tweet.
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"It was a long letter that contains mainly complaints about these expensive and ridiculous exercises," according to Donald Trump, who regularly criticizes, in concert with the leader of this enemy country of the United States, these maneuvers though carried out by his own army with South Korean allies.
Kim Jong Un also assured that "these tests would end when the exercises would end," added the US president.