North Korea has reportedly test fired a missile just hours after its government confirmed it had agreed to renew nuclear talks with the US.
South Korea's military said the North fired at least one projectile off its eastern coast on Tuesday, but did not confirm what the weapons were and how far they flew.
A senior North Korean diplomat earlier announced Pyongyang had agreed to resume nuclear talks with the US this weekend.
Negotiations have been at a standstill for months following the collapse of a February summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US president Donald Trump over disagreements in exchanging sanctions relief and disarmament.
But Choe Son Hui, North Korea's first vice minister of foreign affairs, said the two nations will have preliminary contact on Friday as talks aimed at the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula resume.
They will hold working-level talks on Saturday, according to a statement released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency.
“It is my expectation that the working-level negotiations would accelerate the positive development of the DPRK-U.S. relations,” Choe said in the statement, using an abbreviation for North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
