The United States, Japan, and South Korea held talks in Seoul to counter cyber threats from North Korea, focusing on disrupting Pyongyang's malicious cyber activity and revenue laundering. The meeting reaffirmed trilateral coordination and discussed autonomous sanctions and industry efforts to tackle North Korean cyber crimes.

SEOUL/TOKYO - North Korea fired a missile its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea and Japan said, days after it unveiled a uranium enrichment facility and vowed to beef up its nuclear arsenal. Japan's Defence Ministry said the North appears to have used a ballistic missile,

North Korea launched a ballistic missile overnight on September 18 toward the East Sea. The airborne target fell outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, according to the South Korean edition of Yonhap News and the Japanese news agency NHK.