"They're short-range and I don’t consider that a breach of trust at all. And, you know, at some point I may. But at this point no […] Very standard stuff", Trump told Politico.
Earlier this month, Pyongyang carried out a series of missile launches, after hitting a deadlock in denuclearization negotiations with Washington in February. The US Defence Department said these were multiple ballistic missiles that flew east to distances in excess of 300 kilometers (186 miles).
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Most recently, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that North Korea on Thursday, had launched unidentified missiles from the country’s western province of North Pyongan, which covered a distance of 420 and 270 kilometers (261 and 168 miles), respectively.
After the Hanoi summit, denuclearization talks between North Korea and the United States reached a deadlock, since Washington demands that Pyongyang completely dismantles nuclear facilities in the country in order to get sanctions relief, and North Korea wants a part of restrictions to be lifted before denuclearization begins.
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