The South Korean army said that North Korea had fired at least one unidentified projectile

North Korea Thursday shot down at least one unidentified projectile from the west of the countrysaid the South Korean army. This is the second incident of this type in the last five days and a possible warning that nuclear disarmament talks could be in danger.

Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea did not have more details on this immediately, and the type of projectile launched was not specified. But some badysts have pointed to Pyongyang's return to the kind of long-range banned weapons it had experienced in 2017, while many feared that the confrontation with Washington would end in the war This would clearly indicate that a frustrated North Korea will move away from the diplomatic path.

The summit between the President of the United States, Donald Trumpand the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, held in February in Hanoi ended in failure. North calls for widespread sanctions relief in exchange for some steps towards disarmament that Washington would consider insufficient.

Tests with long-range ballistic missiles, banned by the United Nations and considered a threat to neighboring countries, could result in more penalties.

The launch of the projectile took place hours after the North Korean state medias they described their tests with an artillery shell and a possible short-range missile missile Saturday as a regular and defensive military exercise and ridiculed South Korea for criticizing the launches.