North Korea fires missiles in first test in a month

 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, walks around what it says a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on the launcher, at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 24, 2022.

North Korea has fired a pair of ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its first weapons test in a month.

It came two days after it claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the US mainland.