N. Korea fires long-range missile

Glued to the telly: People at a train station in Seoul watching a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test. — AFP

Seoul: North Korea has fired a long-range ballistic missile, the South Korean military said yesterday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down US spy planes that violated its airspace.

Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points ever, with diplomacy stalled and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un calling for increased weapons development, including tactical nukes.