DPRK

Missiles fired as US, ROK hold joint drills

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Tuesday, media reported, a day after the United States and the Republic of Korea began their largest joint military drills in five years that Pyongyang views as an invasion rehearsal. The missiles launched from the southwestern coastal town of Jangyon flew across the DPRK before landing in the sea off that country's east coast, the ROK's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. The US-ROK drills were scheduled to run for at least 10 days from Monday.

UNITED KINGDOM

Support for Scottish independence falls

An opinion poll on Monday showed 39 percent of Scottish voters support independence from the United Kingdom, compared with 47 percent who wish to remain part of the union. The YouGov poll for Sky News had a sample size of 1,002 adults in Scotland and was conducted between March 9 and 13.The result is a marginal fall in support for independence compared with the previous YouGov poll in February, which showed 40 percent in favor of a split, and broadly in line with other results from the pollster. In a referendum in 2014, Scots rejected independence in 2014 by 45 percent to 55 percent.