North Korea claims Friday’s launch was a ‘new kind of intercontinental ballistic missile

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ramped up missile tests this year.

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North Korea said that it directed a “test terminating of another sort” of intercontinental

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long range rocket (ICBM) on Friday, as per the public authority run KCNA news organization.

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Japan cautioned on before on Friday that the rocket had the likely reach to arrive at the US central area.

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KCNA guaranteed that the “new” rocket was a Hwaseong-17, and said

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that it sent off from Pyongyang Global Landing strip and flew a distance of 999.2 km (621 miles).

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The state news organization likewise distributed different still pictures of

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pioneer Kim Jong Un, who apparently managed the send off.

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The ICBM was sent off around 10:15 a.m. neighborhood time from the

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Sunan region of the North Korean capital Pyongyang. South Korea’s Joint

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Heads of Staff (JCS) said. The US said it was a “baldfaced” infringement of UN goals.

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