North Korea said Tuesday that a weapons test conducted a day earlier was of two “tactical guided missiles,” the latest in a spate of weapons tests that have heaped pressure on the U.S. as denuclearization talks remain deadlocked.
“The test-fire was aimed to selectively evaluate tactical guided missiles being produced and deployed and to verify the accuracy of the weapon system,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said.
“The two tactical guided missiles launched in the western area of the DPRK precisely hit an island target” in the Sea of Japan, the report added, using the acronym for the North’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.