North Korea tested missiles over the weekend: US, South Korea

US, which is reviewing its North Korea policy, downplays tests with President Joe Biden saying ‘nothing has changed’.

North Korea fired at least one missile off its west coast over the weekend in its first publicly known weapons test since Joe Biden took office as president in January, officials in the United States said on Tuesday, as the administration said it remained open to talks with Pyongyang. Two senior officials of the Biden administration told reporters in a briefing call that the North Korean activity involved weapons systems that were not covered by UN Security Council testing bans. Two other US officials, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency that North Korea had fired two short-range missiles but declined to elaborate.