New robotic launch from North Korea

New robotic launch from North Korea

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full screen The wreckage of a robot that South Korea’s military says is a North Korean so-called SA-5 robot, which is said to have been picked up in the sea after one of North Korea’s latest weapons tests. Archive image. Photo: Han Sang-kyun/AP/TT

North Korea fired a robot of an as yet unidentified type on the night of Thursday, South Korea’s military says.

The robot must have been directed east over the sea.

The postponement comes just days after the G20 meeting in Indonesia. There, US President Joe Biden tried to influence China’s Xi Jinping to use his influence to rein in North Korea after the country’s recent increase in missile launches.

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