The United States remains open to dialogue with North Korea despite the growing tensions caused by the latter’s missile launches and warplanes deployment near the border of South Korea, a U.S. official said Friday.
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea and blasted about 560 artillery shots into the maritime buffer zones between the two Koreas on Friday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
On that same day, South Korea’s military scrambled fighter jets after spotting 10 North Korean warplanes staging menacing flights near its border. There were no reports of clashes between the two countries….