SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched two projectiles but once more off its east coast on Friday, as South Korean analysts mentioned President Trump’s repeated downplaying of the North’s weapons exams had given it a free hand to conduct them.

The 2 projectiles, launched from Tongchon within the southeast of North Korea, flew 143 miles, the South Korean army mentioned in a press release.

South Korean protection officers mentioned they have been analyzing knowledge they acquired by way of radar and different intelligence-gathering gear to find out what kind of projectiles have been launched.

The launching on Friday was the sixth time North Korea has examined short-range ballistic missiles or different projectiles since late final month.

It additionally got here a day after President Moon Jae-in of South Korea urged North Korea and america to renew dialogue to attempt to slim their variations on how you can denuclearize the North in order that the South Korean chief might push his bold plan to combine the economies of the 2 Koreas.

North Korea blamed a joint army train between South Korea and america when it began conducting its newest sequence of weapons exams final month. It primarily blamed South Korea for the train, saying that it might resume a dialogue with Washington, however not with Seoul, as soon as the joint army train ends later this month. And Mr. Trump has complained extra concerning the expense of the joint army drills than concerning the North’s missile exams.

President Trump has shrugged off North Korea’s latest weapons exams, calling them “smaller ones” that concerned neither nuclear explosions nor intercontinental ballistic missiles. On Saturday, he mentioned North Korea’s chief, Kim Jong-un, had despatched him a letter with a “small apology” explaining that North Korea was conducting exams to counter the American army train with South Korea that Mr. Trump has himself criticized as too costly.

Analysts mentioned Mr. Trump’s downplaying of North Korea’s latest missile exams gave the nation a inexperienced mild to develop and take a look at new short-range weapon programs that threatened not solely American allies in South Korea and Japan but in addition American troops and civilians dwelling there. Underneath a sequence of United Nations Safety Council resolutions, North Korea can be banned from testing ballistic missile know-how.

“Reasonably than denouncing these exams as violations of U.N. resolutions and as a risk to the American allies, President Trump has sounded as if he didn’t care, describing them as not a risk to the mainland United States,” mentioned Kim Sung-han, a former vice overseas minister of South Korea who teaches at Korea College in Seoul. “His feedback make the allies and American troops within the area extra susceptible to North Korean missile threats.”

Mr. Trump’s angle supplied the North with an ideal alternative to check new missiles that might make it tougher the South Korean and United States militaries to intercept, mentioned Lee Byong-chul, a North Korea skilled at Kyungnam College’s Institute for Far Japanese Research in Seoul.

It has additionally helped encourage North Korea to disregard the South as a dialogue accomplice, he mentioned.

“North Korea needs to advance its missile know-how as a lot as doable earlier than the talks with america resume in order that it will possibly enter them with extra leverage,” Mr. Lee mentioned. “It has develop into clear that North Korea needs to deal straight with america, seeing nothing to achieve thorough talks with the South.”

Certainly, North Korea has been much less amenable to negotiating with South Korea, which it accused of failing to hold out the bold inter-Korean financial initiatives that its chief, Kim Jong-un, and Mr. Moon agreed to pursue in conferences final yr. In latest months, it has used more and more insulting language to assault Mr. Moon, who has helped prepare conferences between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump.

Regardless of widespread skepticism over inter-Korean relations, Mr. Moon mentioned in his speech on Thursday that regardless of “a sequence of worrying actions taken by North Korea just lately,” the momentum for dialogue stays unshaken. He mentioned South and North Korea might prosper collectively in an built-in “peace financial system” if the North chooses “financial prosperity over its nuclear program.”

“The worldwide neighborhood has additionally promised to help its financial development if it abandons its nuclear program,” Mr. Moon mentioned. “New markets and alternatives will open up for each South and North Korean companies.”

However hours after Mr. Moon’s speech, North Korea mentioned it had nothing to speak about with South Korean authorities.

An unnamed Northern authorities spokesperson mentioned in a press release carried by the North’s official Korean Central Information Company on Friday that Mr. Moon’s remarks have been so preposterous that they might “make the boiled head of a cow giggle.” The spokesperson mentioned the joint army drill between the South and america was clearly an train to “annihilate” the North. The North additionally accused South Korea of constant to construct up its arms behind the masks of speaking peace.

Earlier this week, South Korea’s army unveiled multibillion-dollar plans to construct new warships and develop precision guided weapons. Its midterm army spending plans have been introduced amid rising fears over North Korea’s increasing missile capabilities.

Within the weapons exams since late final month, North Korea has unveiled two new short-range ballistic missiles and a brand new guided multiple-tube rocket launcher.

Analysts say that the brand new missiles left little doubt that regardless of Mr. Trump’s insistence that his on-again, off-again diplomacy with Mr. Kim is making progress, the North has continued to modernize and develop its missile capabilities. All three of the brand new missile and rocket programs examined by the North marked important advances for the nation’s army, they mentioned.

All of them used strong gas and have been fired from cellular launchers. Such missiles and rockets are simpler to move and conceal, particularly in a mountainous nation like North Korea, and take much less time to arrange for launching than the North’s outdated missiles that used liquid gas, they mentioned.

The weapons additionally gave the impression to be maneuvered throughout their low-altitude, high-speed flight, making it tougher for South Korean and United States missile protection programs to intercept them, the analysts mentioned.