North Korea launches missiles, Seoul says, after Trump floats Kim meet
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on August 20, 2026. North Korea fired around 10 short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea's military said on August 20, hours after US President Donald Trump said he would meet Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong Un later this year. (AFP photo)
North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles on Aug. 20, Seoul's military said, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet Pyongyang's Kim Jong Un this year.
The latest launches from the nuclear-armed North come as South Korea and the United States hold a shorter edition of their annual Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercises, following an order from Trump to scale them back.
Pyongyang has long condemned U.S.-South Korea joint exercises as rehearsals for invasion, often staging missile launches around the drills.
