North Korea fires 'projectiles' hours after offering talks with US

The US State Department told i24NEWS it has 'no meetings to announce at this time'

No further details were immediately available in the latest such incident since July, which saw a series of consecutive launches identified as short-range missiles.

The nuclear-armed hermit state offered to resume talks later this month after a standstill in the denuclearization process following the collapse of a February summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.

The pair agreed to restart working-level dialogue during an impromptu meeting in June at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing North and South Korea, but those talks have yet to begin.

"We are willing to sit face-to-face with the US around late September at a time and place that we can agree on," Choe Son Hui, the North's vice foreign minister, said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

In late August, Choe warned that the North's "expectations of dialogue with the US are gradually disappearing", after Pyongyang conducted a series of weapons tests to protest joint US-South Korean military exercises.

A spokesperson for the US State Department told i24NEWS that there there are "no meetings to announce at this time," following the KCNA report. 

"I have a very good relationship with Chairman Kim. I always say having meetings is a good thing. We'll see what happens," US President Donald Trump told reporters regarding the proposed lower-level September talks, which could line up with the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

On Monday, Choe recalled Kim's comments that the North would wait until the end of the year for Washington to "quit its current calculation method," and present an "acceptable calculation" or risk jeopardizing the entire diplomatic process.

"I think the US has since had enough time to find the calculation method that it can share with us," he said.