rth Korea on Tuesday has fired projectiles towards sea, South Korea's military has said. This comes hours after Pyongyang said it is willing to hold working-level talks with United States in late September.

rth Korea fires projectiles

Negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington have been gridlocked since a second summit between rth's leer Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump in February ended without a deal. rth Korea twice launched "unidentified projectiles" Tuesday morning in an easterly direction from South Pyongan province, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. furr details were immediately available but se were latest to be fired since July. Previous launches have been identified as short-range missiles.

"We are aware of reports of projectiles launched from rth Korea. We are continuing to monitor situation and consulting closely with our allies in region," a senior US official has said.

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Trump and Kim h agreed to restart working-level dialogue during an impromptu meeting at Demilitarized Zone dividing nuclear-armed rth and South Korea in June. However, those talks have yet to begin. "We are willing to sit face-to-face with US around late September at a time and place that we can agree on," Choe Son Hui, rth Korea’s Foreign Minister, said in a statement carried on Monday by official Korean Central News ncy.

Choe's comment followed her warning in late August that rth Korea's "expectations of dialogue with US are grually disappearing" after Pyongyang conducted weapons tests to protest joint US-South Korean military exercises.

Asked about proposal for lower-level talks in September, Trump told reporters, "I have a very good relationship with Chairman Kim. I always say, having meetings is a good thing. We'll see what happens."

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On Monday, Choe recalled Kim's comments that rth would wait until end of year for Washington to "quit its current calculation method". She repeated Pyongyang's call for US to come up with an "acceptable calculation" or risk jeopardizing entire diplomatic process.

When asked by global media about latest rth Korean offer, a State Department official replied: "We don't have any meetings to anunce at this time."

Kim and Trump opted a vaguely-worded statement on "complete denuclearisation of Korean peninsula" at ir first summit in Singapore in June last year, but little progress has since been me on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programme. A report published by a United Nations panel of experts last week said rth Korea's development of nuclear warhes h t stopped, despite moratorium it declared on nuclear blasts and long-range missile launches.

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current state of US-rth Korea relations

US officials have called rth Korea's recent short-range missile launches "provocations", although Trump himself has avoided criticizing m. Pyongyang is barred from ballistic missile tests under UN resolutions, and its previous short-range missile tests have been condemned by European members of UN Security Council. rth Korea is under heavy US and UN sanctions over its weapons programmes, and has criticized Washington's position that sanctions against isolated regime will t be lifted until country gives up its nuclear weapons.

Pyongyang's latest comments on talks come after US special envoy to rth Korea, Stephen Biegun, said rth must stop blocking nuclear talks.

"If we are to succeed, rth Korea must set aside its search for obstacles to negotiations and inste seek opportunities for engment while that opportunity lasts," he said on Friday.

"We have me clear to rth Korea that we are prepared to eng as soon as we hear from m," he said on Friday. "We are rey, but we cant do this by ourselves."

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