following from north asia. north korea has launched another rocket in recent hours prompting neighbours south korea and japan to briefly issue then rescind alerts to millions of residents. we now know this launch was a failure and the rocket exploded in midair and crashed into the sea. , , ., , sea. this will be a big disappointment - sea. this will be a big disappointment for i sea. this will be a big l disappointment for the sea. this will be a big - disappointment for the north korean leader kim john un who has been working to develop north korea s first ever spy satellite for a very long time. kimjong un un. he even announced he was planning this
North Korea may officially declare victory over Covid-19 when its daily fever cases and the pandemic situation in neighboring China ease significantly. North Korea acknowledged the Covid outbreak last month.
president biden and his south korean counterpart have agreed to hold larger military drills and deploy more us weapons if necessary to deter north korea. mr biden who s on his first visit to asia as president, also said he was open to discussions with north korea. our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie joins us now. how significant are these talks? the focus of this trip and talks were supposed to be on how these countries could work more closely together to combat china s growing dominance in asia but as is often the case north korea has managed to dominate. because intelligence over the past few days has shown north korea is getting ready to test a major missile or even nuclear weapon. today the two presidents took the opportunity to urge kim jong un to come back to the negotiating table and they said they were ready and willing to talk to him but this is nothing new, they ve been saying this for years and kim john un has refused to engage and