{"id":340271,"date":"2025-10-29T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340271\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:53:14","slug":"north-korea-boasts-missile-test-firings-as-trump-makes-south-korea-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340271\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea boasts missile test-firings as Trump makes South Korea visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korea said Wednesday its recent test-firings of sea-to-surface cruise missiles were successful, in another display of its growing military capabilities as U.S. President Donald Trump visits South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

North Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said the missiles fired Tuesday flew for more than two hours before accurately striking targets in its western waters. It said the weapons would contribute to expanding the operational sphere of the country\u2019s nuclear-armed military.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military had detected the North Korean launch preparations and that the cruise missiles were fired in the North\u2019s northwestern waters at around 3 p.m. Tuesday. The joint chiefs said South Korea and the United States were analyzing the weapons and maintaining a combined defense readiness capable of a \u201cdominant response\u201d against any North Korean provocation.<\/p>\n

This photo provided by North Korean government shows what it says a test of a sea-to-surface cruise missile at an undisclosed place in North Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

The North Korean report<\/a> came hours before an expected summit between Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the city of Gyeongju, where South Korea is hosting this year\u2019s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings.<\/p>\n

KCNA said the tests were attended by senior military official Pak Jong Chon, who also inspected training for sailors aboard North Korea\u2019s newly developed destroyers Choe Hyon and Kang Kon, which leader Kim Jong Un has described as key assets in his efforts to strengthen the navy.<\/p>\n

North Korea\u2019s latest launches followed short-range ballistic missile tests last week that it said involved a new hypersonic system designed to strengthen its nuclear war deterrent.<\/p>\n

Trump has expressed interest in meeting with Kim during his stay in South Korea, where he is also scheduled to hold a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, South Korean officials have said a Trump\u2013Kim meeting is unlikely.<\/p>\n

Family members of Japanese citizens abducted\u00a0by\u00a0North\u00a0Korea meet with US President Donald Trump at the Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo on October 28, 2025. POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, en route to South Korea. AP<\/p>\n

North Korea has shunned any form of talks with Washington and Seoul since Kim\u2019s high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with Trump fell apart in 2019 during the American president\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n

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Kim\u2019s top foreign policy priority is now Russia. In recent months, he has sent thousands of troops and large quantities of military equipment to help fuel President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine, while embracing the idea of a \u201cnew Cold War\u201d and positioning his country as part of a united front against the U.S.-led West.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Last month, Kim reiterated he wouldn\u2019t return to talks with the United States unless Washington drops its demand for North Korea\u2019s denuclearization, after Trump repeatedly expressed his hopes for new diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korea said Wednesday its recent test-firings of sea-to-surface cruise missiles were successful, in another display of its…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":340272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,24529,374,50,24240,15243,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-340271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-kim-jong-un","10":"tag-missiles","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-north-korea","13":"tag-south-korea","14":"tag-world","15":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115456377526154377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}