‘No one loses’: why North Korea’s Kim may shake hands with Trump again

On Thursday, Pyongyang said tests conducted over the previous two days involved a radar-evading missile tipped with cluster bombs capable of turning a targeted area as wide as 10 football fields into “ashes”.

The launch might have been aimed at testing the destructive capability of cluster munitions, and the second test was likely to assess how far the missile equipped with a cost-efficient engine could fly, according to analysts.

On Tuesday, North Korea launched an unidentified projectile eastward from an area near Pyongyang, but it apparently failed in the early stage of flight.