1.South Korea's military said that North Korea fired what appeared to be a new type of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Thursday, in a move apparently aimed at bolstering Pyongyang's leverage ahead of the U.S. presidential election next week.

2.The Czech Republic's antitrust authority,, on Wednesday imposed a temporary hold on a deal to build two nuclear reactors, for which a South Korean consortium was chosen as the preferred bidder in July.

3. According to data by Statistics Korea on Thursday, South Korea's industrial output fell 0.3 percent from a month earlier in September on dwindling production in the semiconductor. Retail sales, a gauge of private spending, also went down 0.4 percent amid signs of weaker economic growth.