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August 16, 2019 North Korea has launched two new, unidentified missiles into the sea, triggering Seoul's concern with President Moon Jae-in who has assembled its Security Council. The South Korean army said the bullets were fired from near the city of Tongchon in the province of Kangwon - in the east of the country - and they flew about 230 kilometers before falling into the Sea of ​​Japan. It is the sixth launch in recent weeks, a sign of Pyongyang's irritation with joint military exercises between the US and Seoul. The North considers them "proofs for the invasion" of the country.

The latest launch came after the Committee for Peaceful Reunification, a North Korean body, rejected Moon's comments that outlined his desire for unification, and said he had nothing else to discuss with the South. Committee called Moon - which has long favored dialogue with the North - a "boy of rare impudence", for hoping for a resumption of inter-Korean talks while continuing military exercises with Washington. In a speech on Thursday on the anniversary of the liberation of Korea from the Japanese government of 1910-45, Moon set the goal of "achieving peace and unification by 2045", although his five-year presidency expires in 2022. "Your speech deserves to be called a silly commemorative speech," the North said in his statement. "We no longer have anything to discuss with the South Korean authorities nor do we have any idea to sit with them again," he added.