WRAPUP 1-U.S. officials play down N.Korea missile tests, hold out for new talks

North Korea's latest missile launches did not violate a pledge its leader Kim Jong Un made to U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday, but efforts to resume denuclearisation talks remained in doubt. Kim oversaw the first test firing of a "new-type large-calibre multiple launch guided rocket system" on Wednesday, North Korean state media reported. It followed six days after the launch of two similar short-range ballistic missiles, North Korea's first tests since Kim and Trump met on June 30 and agreed to revive stalled denuclearisation talks.

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