The failed launch prompted neighboring Japan to issue brief a “J-alert” ordering some residents to evacuate to safe places as the North Korean rocket flew over its southernmost islands of Okinawa
Trilateral summit among the leaders of South Korea, the US and Japan at Camp David has helped establish a "basic framework" for coping with North Korea's nuclear and missile threats
The Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, an observer of the armistice, will also attend the drills. The commission has representatives from Sweden and Switzerland.
This signifies the North's initial public acknowledgment of Pvt. Travis King's situation, who traversed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) into North Korea while on a tour of the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the DMZ on July 18
Along with a typhoon alert, North Korea had also issued warnings on Monday against strong winds, heavy rains and large waves across areas of the country this week.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at their highest level in years as the pace of North Korea's missile tests and the joint US-South Korea military drills have both intensified in a tit-for-tat cycle
Russia and China are sending government delegations to North Korea this week to join commemorations of the signing of the armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War 70 years ago
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launches from the Sunan area in Pyongyang between 3.30 a.m. and 3.46 a.m., and they flew some 550 km before splashing into the sea, reports Yonhap News Agency.
Periodic visits by US nuclear ballistic missile-capable submarines to South Korea were one of several agreements reached by the two countries' Presidents in April in response to North Korea's expanding nuclear threat
The UN Command tweeted that the US citizen was on a tour to the Korean border village of Panmunjom and crossed the border into the North without authorisation