North Korea fires two ballistic missiles, says South Korea

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles today, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. This is the second launch, days after a similar launch that was described as a warning to the South over planned joint military drills with the United States.

North Korea is banned from ballistic missile launches under UN Security Council resolutions but it was the second such firing in less than a week, despite a meeting between leader Kim Jong Un and US



President Donald Trump last month.

Pyongyang and Washington agreed to resume talks during their impromptu June encounter in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, but that working-level dialogue has yet to begin. 

Pyongyang has warned the negotiations could be derailed by Washington and Seoul's refusal to scrap the annual drills between their forces.