Diplomat accuses Washington of making proposals aimed at buying time without offering real solutions as Pyongyang end of year deadline for mutually acceptable terms approaches

Latest test comes while UN Security Council meets over Wednesday's missile launches, after Pyongyang angered by US-South Korea military drill

Move complicates efforts to resume stalled nuclear talks with Washington and signals anger in Pyongyang over planned US-South Korea joint military exercises

Pyongyang says it may stop abiding by moratorium it agreed on with America to protest US-South Korea military drills

US president says Pyongyang 'fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me'

South Korean officials say they are still trying to determine how many missiles were launched in second such incident in days

First launch of its kind in over a year steps up pressure on Washington amid deadlocked nuclear talks