US touts renewed military drills after ‘low-end’ North Korean tests

Published March 23, 2021 11:19pm ET



President Biden’s team says it isn’t troubled by a new round of reported missile launches from North Korea, dismissing the latest barrage as a “low-end” outburst that doesn’t represent a significant degradation of security on the peninsula.

“North Korea has a familiar menu of provocations when it wants to send a message to a U.S. administration,” a senior administration official told reporters as reports of new missile tests circulated. “Experts rightly recognized what took place last weekend as falling on the low end of that spectrum.”

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