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		</div><p>North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a “newly developed super-large multiple rocket launcher,” the country’s Central News Agency (KCNA) has said.</p>
<p>NKCNA said Saturday’s weapons test was successful and cited Mr Kim as saying the rocket launcher is “indeed a great weapon”.</p>
<p>Mr Kim underscored the need to “continue to step up the development of Korean-style strategic and tactical weapons for resolutely frustrating the ever-mounting military threats and pressure offensive of the hostile forces,” according to the KCNA.</p>
<p>The “hostile forces” probably referred to the US and South Korea, whose recently ended regular military drills infuriated North Korea.</p>
<p>The North has called the drills an invasion rehearsal and conducted a slew of missile and rocket tests in response.</p>
<p>Some experts said North Korea aims to show off its weapons to try to get an upper hand before a possible restart of nuclear negotiations, which have been largely at a stalemate since the second summit between President Donald Trump and Mr Kim in Vietnam in February fell apart due to squabbling over US-led sanctions on North Korea.</p>
<p>The two leaders met again at the Korean border in late June and agreed to resume talks.</p>
<p>Mr Trump played down the latest launch, saying <em>“Kim Jong Un has been, you know, pretty straight with me … He likes testing missiles but we never restricted short-range missiles. We’ll see what happens.”</em></p>
<p>South Korea’s military said the North fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Saturday morning and that they flew about 236 miles at the maximum altitude of 60 miles.</p>
<p>It was the seventh known weapons test by North Korea in about a month.</p>
<p>The latest North Korean launches came two days after South Korea said it would terminate its intelligence-sharing deal with Japan amid trade disputes between the US allies.</p>
<p>Washington expressed its disappointment at the South Korean decision.</p>
<p>In a development that could possibly further complicate ties between Seoul and Tokyo, South Korea’s navy on Sunday began two-day exercises around a group of islets controlled by South Korea but also claimed by Japan.</p>
<p>Japan’s foreign ministry issued a statement saying the islets belong to Japan and called the drills “unacceptable”.</p>
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