<span style="color: #222222;">North Korea has fired three projectiles, Seoul's military said , a week after it launched what the South said appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles.<br />''<br />''The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff in a statement said that three devices were fired eastwards over the sea from the Sondok area in South Hamgyong province. Today's launch was the North's second weapons test in a week.<br />''<br />''After last week's launch the North's state media said leader Kim Jong Un had overseen a long-range artillery drill but it was not clear if those two incidents last week were the same.<br />''<br />''The latest launch came days after Kim sent a personal letter to the South's President Moon Jae-in, offering comfort for the rapid outbreak of the Novel Corona virus outbreak in the country.<br />''<br />''The launches come as nuclear negotiations with the US are at a standstill and after the expiry of a unilateral deadline Pyongyang set for Washington to offer it fresh concessions on sanctions relief.</span><br />