Pyongyang continues test firing short-range missiles

North Korea continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into the sea yesterday while lashing out at the United States and South Korea for continuing military exercises that the North says could derail fragile nuclear diplomacy. North Korea’s fourth round of weapons launches in less than two weeks came amid a standstill in nuclear negotiations and after President Donald Trump repeatedly dismissed the significance of the country’s recent tests despite the threat the weapons pose to ally South Korea and US bases there.