After US VP Kamala Harris departs South Korea, North Korea launches two short-range ballistic missiles.

Several hours after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris returned home from South Korea, where she had reaffirmed the "ironclad" U.S. commitment to the security of its Asian allies, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea as a show of defiance.

North Korea has already launched three separate missiles this week, continuing a record pace of weapons testing as it tries to increase its arsenal and force t....