SEOUL: North Korea Sunday staged a fresh missile test, a day after staging a defiant giant military parade and hours before US Vice President Mike Pence arrived in South Korea for talks on curbing Pyongyang’s weapons programs.

The South Korean and US military said the latest launch — conducted as tensions rose over the North’s nuclear ambitions — was a failure.

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