North Korea fired an
"unidentified ballistic missile"
eastward on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, as quoted by the Yonhap news agency.
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The firing, the latest in a series of weapons tests this year resembling a snub to international sanctions against Pyongyang, comes as US President Joe Biden wraps up a trip to South Korea and Japan.