S Korea president wants Koreas, US to continue dialogue with one another

REUTERS: South Korean president on Friday urged North and South Korea as well as the US to continue dialogue and not create difficulties for one another.

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said on Friday that the two Koreas and the United States should make efforts to continue dialogue, not create difficulties.

A few days ago, North Korea tested US President Joe Biden by conducting its first-ever missile test since the American leader assumed charge of his office.

The North Korean tests involved weapons systems at the low end of the spectrum that were not covered by U.N. Security Council testing bans, two senior officials of the Biden administration told a briefing call on Tuesday.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said two cruise missiles were fired off North Korea’s west coast town of Onchon on Sunday morning.

South Korea had detected signs a test was imminent and was monitoring it in real time, a JCS official told reporters on Wednesday. The JCS reports North Korea’s testing of advanced weapons such as nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles nearly in real time but not some tests of lower grade, shorter range weapons.

The launch marks North Korea’s first publicly known weapons test since Biden took office in January.