North Korea gets impatient and fires two missiles

Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles Thursday from the Sino-ri military base, while the US envoy to North Korea, Stephen Biegun, landed a few hours earlier in Seoul to continue denuclearization negotiations.

Kim Jong-un's message is clear: without agreement, Pyongyang will not spare Washington. On February 28, Donald Trump departed prematurely from the summit in Hanoi where he had unsuccessfully tried to reach a nuclear deal with the North Korean dictator. Since then, the American sanctions still weigh on the kingdom which does not intend to let itself be done. North Korea retaliated last Saturday by launching several missiles, including a short-range missile, during a "purely defensive" military exercise under the Pyongyang regime. He outbid Thursday with the shooting of two short-range missiles to the east, from the Sino-ri military base located 77 kilometers northwest of the capital. The two shots were fired on Thursday at 16:29 and 16:49 local time, reached 50 km altitude and one of them traveled a distance of 420 km, according to the staff of the South Korean armed forces. . "Whatever may have been the intentions of North Korea, we warn that this could make negotiations more difficult," said South Korean President Moon Jae-in......