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		</div><p>South Korea says North Korean fighter jets have fired missiles off the North’s east coast.</p>
<p>A South Korean defence official says the North launched several fighter jets after it conducted suspected cruise missile tests on Tuesday morning.</p>
<p>The official says the North Korean fighter jets fired an unspecified number of air-to-surface missiles toward the North’s eastern waters.</p>
<p>The launches came on the eve of the 108th birthday of North Korea’s late founder, Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un. They also came a day ahead of South Korean parliamentary elections.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, North Korea has carried out a series of short-range missile and other weapons tests amid stalled nuclear talks with the United States.</p>
<p>Most of the weapons tested were ballistic missiles or long-range artillery shells, and it is unusual for North Korea to launch a cruise missile.</p>
<p>Some experts say North Korea is likely to have used the latest weapons launches to bolster its striking capability against South Korea, which has been introducing US-made stealth F-35 jets and other sophisticated conventional weapons systems in recent years. Others say the latest weapons tests were also aimed at shoring up internal unity in the face of US-led sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>North Korea has repeatedly said there has been no coronavirus outbreak on its territory. But many foreign experts are sceptical of that claim and have warned that a coronavirus outbreak in the North could become a humanitarian disaster because of the country’s chronic lack of medical supplies and fragile healthcare infrastructure.</p>
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