North Korea fires more missiles

North Korea has fired two short-range projectiles into waters off its east coast, South Korean officials said, on the eve of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s talks in Seoul expected to focus on the North’s nuclear weapons programme.

The launches, the third in a week, were believed to be a message that the North is boosting its defences and expressing its displeasure that Mr Xi will become the first Chinese leader to visit rival South Korea before the North.