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North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles early Wednesday morning, South Korea's military has said, BBC reported.

Authorities in Seoul said the missiles were fired in the space of less than an hour from the Sunan area in Pyongyang.

It comes just a day after US President Joe Biden left the region, following a trip that saw him vowing to bolster measures to deter North Korea. 

North Korea has been test-firing a flurry of ballistic missiles since the beginning of this year.

Japan confirmed at least two launches happened on Wednesday but acknowledged there may have been more. 

Japan's Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said first missile flew about 300km (186 mi) with a maximum altitude of around 550 km, while the second, reaching as high as 50 km, travelled around 750 km, according to BBC.

Mr Kishi criticised the launches, saying they were "not acceptable" adding that it would "threaten the peace, stability and safety of Japan and the international community". 

In a meeting convened after the missile launch, South Korea's National Security Council called the test a "grave provocation", the presidential office said. 

The launches came hours after US President Joe Biden departed for the US on Tuesday evening, after a five-day trip that saw him visiting South Korea and Japan. 

US and South Korean officials had earlier warned that North Korea appeared ready for another weapons test, possibly during Biden's visit.

During his visit to Seoul over the weekend, Mr Biden and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol agreed to hold bigger military drills and deploy more US strategic assets if necessary to deter North Korea's intensifying weapons tests, according to BBC.

Mr Biden had said the United States was "prepared for anything North Korea does."

Chiribabu Maharjan of the Nepali Congress has been elected as the mayor of the Lalitpur Metropolitan City for the second term.

He defeated his nearest rival Hari Krishna Byanjankar of the CPN-UML by 18, 162 votes.

Out of 86, 540 votes cast, Maharjan garnered 42, 722 votes while Byanjankar secured 24, 560 votes.

Similarly, Manjali Shakya has been elected as the deputy mayor. 

She defeated her closest rival Babu Raja Bajracharya of the CPN (Maoist Centre) by 6, 332 votes.

Shakya received 24, 084 votes while Bajracharya got 18, 752 votes.

CPN-UML Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gwayali claimed that the policy and programs of the coalition government is the weakest policy programs in history.

Talking to journalists at the Parliament building in New Baneshwor on Tuesday, he said that the policy and programs unveiled by President Bidya Devi Bhandari this afternoon even could not garner support from the ruling parties.

He accused the government of being completely unaware of the problems when the county is in dire straits.

"The policy and programs will not help resolve the problems of the country. This is a directionless document," leader Gyawali said.

The government has removed the slogan ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’ from its policy and programs unveiled for the upcoming fiscal year. 

The erstwhile government led by KP Sharma Oli had been referring to the slogan of ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepal’ as the national aspiration. 

The Oli government had adopted the slogan for four years. 

But, now the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government has removed the slogan from the policy and programs.