North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile: South Korean army

A man walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Jan 17, 2022. - AFP

SEOUL (AFP): North Korea has fired two suspected ballistic missiles, South Korea's military said Monday (Jan 17), in what would be the nuclear-armed country's fourth weapons test this month.

As talks with the United States remain stalled, Pyongyang looks set on military modernisation, testing hypersonic missiles twice this month and firing train-borne missiles Friday in response to new sanctions.