The launch was the most provocative weapons demonstration by North Korea this year as it ramps up missile tests to a record pace.
The two missiles were fired eastwards from North Korea’s western coast within about 15 minutes of each other.
During her visit to South Korea,US Vice President Kamala Harris warned North Korea against its “destabilising” weapons activities.
North Korea will likely be infuriated by the rhetoric that came days after it legislated to allow the use of its nuclear weapons preemptively.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says a new law makes its nuclear status “irreversible” and bars denuclearisation talks.
“It’s an indication of how much his defence industrial establishment is suffering as a result of this war,” said the Pentagon press secretary.
But there are plenty of holes in country’s miraculous comeback story.
Some of the heaviest rain in decades swamped South Korea’s capital region,turning Seoul’s streets into car-clogged rivers and sending floods cascading into subway stations.
With its economy ravaged by UN sanctions and the pandemic,cryptocurrency theft has become an increasingly vital source of foreign currency for North Korea.
After an investigation,the Kim regime has ordered people to “vigilantly deal with alien things coming by wind and other climate phenomena,and balloons”.
It’s the second unsuccessful test flight of the prototype weapon Conventional Prompt Strike that is to rival Russian,Chinese and North Korean weapons.