North Korea fired unidentified projectile from around Wonsan – Yonhap
|Earlier on Thursday morning in Asia, Yonhap came out with a news report quoting South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff that Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), popularly known as North Korea, had launched an "unidentified projectile" from the area of Wonsan, a city on the country's eastern coast.
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FX implications
Such actions often trigger risk-off sentiment, which in turn can be cited for the USD/JPY pair’s latest pullback.
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