South's Military: North Korea fires two unidentified projectiles into East Sea

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People watch a TV screen showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. (Source: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed the launches in a statement but couldn't immediately confirm how far the projectiles flew or whether the weapons were ballistic or rocket artillery.

The launches came two days after North Korea's state media said leader Kim Jong Un supervised an artillery drill aimed at testing the combat readiness of units in front-line and eastern areas.

During a key ruling party meeting in late December, Kim expressed deep frustration over deadlocked diplomacy with the United States and said he won't denuclearize if the US persists with its hostile policy on his country.

He also said he would unveil a new ''strategic weapon'' soon and no longer be bound by a self-imposed weapons test moratorium that coincided with his diplomacy with Trump.

Nuclear diplomacy between North Korea and the US has largely stalled since the breakdown of Kim's second summit with President Donald Trump in February 2019 in Vietnam. That summit collapsed because Trump rejected Kim's demands for broad sanctions relief in return for dismantling his main nuclear complex, a limited disarmament step. Subsequent talks between Pyongyang and Washington reported little progress.

After the failed summit in Hanoi, North Korea carried out a slew of short-range missile and other weapons tests. Trump downplayed them saying there were short-range weapons that didn't pose a direct threat to the US mainland./.