South Koreans watch a news broadcast on North Korea's recent ballistic missile launch at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, on May 14. (EPA photo)SEOUL - North Korea said on Monday the missile it launched over the weekend was a new type of long-range ballistic rocket that could carry a heavy nuclear warhead. "The president said we are leaving open the possibility of dialogue with North Korea, but we should sternly deal with a provocation to prevent North Korea from miscalculating.'' He said Sunday's launch, the seventh such firing by North Korea this year, may have been of a new mobile, two-stage liquid-fuelled missile North Korea displayed in a huge April 15 military parade. The USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft supercarrier, is also engaging with South Korean navy ships in waters off the Korean Peninsula, according to Seoul's Defence Ministry.

Source: Bangkok Post May 15, 2017 03:45 UTC