NEW — A senior admin official tells me John Bolton has briefed President Trump on the North Korean missile launch. — Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) May 4, 2019

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The launches comes amid a diplomatic breakdown that has followed the failed summit earlier this year between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over the North’s pursuit of a nuclear arsenal that can target the U.S. mainland.

In March, President Donald Trump said he was a “little disappointed” by reports of new activity at a North Korean missile research center and long-range rocket site. Trump said time will tell if U.S. diplomacy with the reclusive country will be successful.

During the diplomacy that followed a rocky 2017, Kim Jong Un said that the North would not test nuclear devices or ICBMs.

This short-range missile would not violate that self-imposed moratorium. It may instead be a way to register his displeasure with Washington and the state of talks meant to provide sanctions relief for disarmament without having the diplomacy collapse.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.