India, Sept. 21 -- North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Sunday, South Korea's military said, days after the North threatened to bolster its nuclear deterrent capabilities and respond to what it called US hostilities.

The launches were the latest in a series of weapons demonstrations by North Korea even after US President Donald Trump scaled back a joint military exercise with South Korea last month in an apparent effort to revive diplomacy with the North's leader, Kim Jong Un. The two missile launches - about three hours apart - were conducted from North Korea's eastern coastal Wonsan area. The first missile flew about 450 kilometres while the second one flew more than 600 kilometres, both toward the ...