North Korea fired intermediate-range ballistic missile, U.S. PACOM says on Friday.
North Korea fired a missile on Friday that flew over Japan’s northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and Japanese officials said, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang’s recent test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday was briefed shortly after North Korea launched a ballistic missile, the White House said.
Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly gave the briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
The missile was launched from Pyongyang and flew some 3,700 kilometers over Japan into the North Pacific Ocean, according to South Korea’s military.
The U.N. Security Council will meet Friday to discuss North Korea’s latest missile launch, Reuters said, citing diplomats.
The meeting has been scheduled for 3 p.m. in New York, it said.
North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan early Friday (local time), just days after the U.N. Security Council adopted new sanctions against the regime over its sixth nuclear test on Sept. 3.
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan on Friday morning, Japan’s government said, strongly protesting against what it called Pyongyang’s latest intolerable provocation.
North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan again on Friday in defiance of the international community’s warnings, according to South Korea’s military.
The latest in a series of the Kim Jong-un regime’s provocations came three days after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution aimed at cutting the North’s oil imports by a third.
North Korean missile likely reached altitude of 770 km, flew 3,700 km: South Korean military https://t.co/vmZB1bonts pic.twitter.com/nsSDcpRlYr
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The U.S. general who oversees America’s nuclear forces said on Thursday he was making the assumption that North Korea did in fact test a hydrogen bomb on Sept. 3, crossing a key threshold in its weapons development efforts.
