North Korea tested what appears to be its longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, in the latest sign that Pyongyang continues to make significant progress in developing its weapons programme.
South Korea said the ICBM reached an altitude of more than 6,000km — the highest a North Korean missile has flown — and travelled for about 71 minutes to a range of 1,080km from its launch site near Pyongyang.
The missile landed in the Sea of Japan within the Japanese exclusive economic zone 170km west of the northern prefecture of Aomori, according to the Japanese coastguard. The sea is known in Korea as the East Sea.
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