North Korea launches at least one more projectile after announcing U.S. talks

[TomSea]

October 1, 2019
North Korea launches at least one more projectile after announcing U.S. talks
Joyce Lee

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea carried out at least one more projectile launch on Wednesday, the South Korean military and Japanese officials said, a day after North Korea announced it will hold working-level talks with the United States at the weekend.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said North Korea fired an unidentified projectile on Wednesday morning from around Wonsan, in southeast Kangwon province, toward the sea to the east.

Japan’s Coast Guard said in a statement North Korea had launched what appeared to be a missile and urged vessels to pay attention to further information and not to approach any debris.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles/north-korea-launches-at-least-one-more-projectile-after-announcing-u-s-talks-idUSKBN1WG4Y5

2 N. Korean diplomats in Beijing possibly on way to New York
By Yonhap
    Published : Sept 29, 2019 - 09:27

Two North Korean diplomats arrived in Beijing on Saturday, raising the possibility that they could be on their way to New York to attend the UN General Assembly session.

Jang Il-hun, former deputy ambassador to the UN, and Kim Chang-min, director general at the foreign ministry's international organizations bureau, were seen at the airport in Beijing earlier in the day apparently after disembarking from a flight from Pyongyang.

Read more at: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190929000023

So, it sounds like some of their diplomats are in the USA now for "working talks".

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BREAKING: North Korean missile may have been fired from a submarine, South Korea says - Yonhap
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BBC:
North Korea May Have Fired Missile From Submarine
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49902182

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N Korea fires projectiles off eastern coast; one falls in Japan's exclusive economic zone
Today 09:30 am JST
By TONG-HYUNG KIM
SEOUL, South Korea

North Korea fired projectiles toward its eastern sea Wednesday, South Korea's military and Japan's government said, in an apparent display of its expanding military capabilities ahead of planned nuclear negotiations with the United States this weekend.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff did not immediately confirm what the weapons were, how many were fired or how far they flew.

But Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the North fired two ballistic missiles from the country's east coast, and one of them appeared to have landed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone off its northwestern coast. There were no reports of damage to Japanese vessels or aircraft traveling in the area, he said. The North had not fired a weapon that reached inside Japan's EEZ since November 2017 at the height of an unusually provocative run in nuclear and missile tests.

Read more at:  https://japantoday.com/category/politics/N-Korea-fires-projectiles-off-eastern-coast-one-falls-in-Japan's-exclusive-economic-zone

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SLBM launch may not have used submarine
Oct 05,2019
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Thursday that North Korea’s latest missile launch appeared to have come from a sea-based platform, not a submarine.

The comments came after North Korea said it successfully tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) off its east coast Wednesday.

“We assess that it was a short- to medium-range ballistic missile,” JCS spokesman Air Force Col. Patrick Ryder told reporters, adding that it flew some 450 kilometers (280 miles) into the East Sea.

Read more at: http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3068701

Some stories say this was not "submarine-launched"... so for whatever significance. (Still a "sea platform"?)