TEHRAN, Jul 27 - US President Donald Trump said Pyongyang’s short-range missile tests are not threats to Washington.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called two missiles fired Thursday under his personal supervision a "solemn warning" to the South over planned military drills with the United States.
"He didn't send a warning to the United States," Trump told reporters.
"They have their disputes, the two of them have their disputes," he said of North and South Korea, which fought a 1950-1953 war in which US troops took a major part, ending up as the South's principal protector.
Trump noted that the missiles were short-range, calling them "very standard."
Although they could not have reached anywhere near the United States, the missiles' range would easily include ally South Korea and large US military bases near the border.
Trump has used three dramatic meetings with Kim to try and upend years of diplomatic failure in getting North Korea to abandon a nuclear weapons program. Kim has so far given up none of his arsenal.
Source: AFP
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