Lee Jae-myung condemns North Korean missile launch, calls for return to talks

Lee Jae-myung condemns North Korean missile launch, calls for return to talks

South Korean presidential frontrunner Lee Jae-myung condemned North Korea’s first ballistic missile launch in two months on Thursday, urging Pyongyang to return to talks with the U.S. “Military provocations destabilize the Korean Peninsula and do nothing to benefit North Korea,” the Democratic Party (DP) candidate wrote on social media. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff […]

This has been confirmed by the parties following a series of telephone conversations after the launch, which took place between 8.10 and 9.20 (local time) in the morning. Missiles have been launched from the North Korean city of Wonsan and are part of what is already the country’s fourth ballistic rehearsal so far this year, the second since Donald Trump returned to the White House.