![]() ![]() “As a matter of international law, (North Korea’s) recent statements that U.S. “I would just say that we continue to urge (North Korea) to refrain from escalatory actions,” Matthew Miller, a spokesperson for the U.S. and South Korea dismissed the North’s accusations and urged it to refrain from any acts or rhetoric that raised animosities. After that launch, Kim said the missile would enhance the North’s counterattack capabilities and ordered the expansion of his country’s nuclear arsenal to “constantly strike extreme uneasiness and horror” in its rivals. The North’s ICBM test in April was the first launch of the Hwasong-18. Since 2017, North Korea has performed a slew of ICBM tests, but some experts say the North still has some technologies to master to possess functioning nuclear-armed missiles capable of reaching major U.S. ![]() regional allies like South Korea and Japan. North Korea’s ICBM program targets the mainland United States, while its shorter-range missiles are designed to hit U.S. In an emergency meeting of South Korea’s security council convened by video in Lithuania, Yoon warned North Korea would face more powerful international sanctions due to its illicit weapons programs. The launch came while South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida were attending the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. agreed to sternly deal with North Korean provocations and boost their coordination to promote a stronger international response to the North’s nuclear and missile programs, according to Seoul’s Foreign Ministry. In a trilateral phone call, the chief nuclear envoys of South Korea, Japan and the U.S. Matsuno denounced North Korea’s repeated missile launches as “threats to the peace and safety of Japan, the region and international society.” South Korea’s military called the launch “a grave provocation” and urged North Korea to refrain from additional launches. The previous record of 71 minutes was registered during the test flight of the liquid-fuel Hwasong-17 ICBM last year. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the missile flew for 74 minutes - the longest flight time recorded by any weapon launched by North Korea. They said the missile was launched at a high angle in what observers say was an apparent attempt to avoid neighboring countries. The missile, fired from North Korea’s capital region around 10 a.m., flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) at a maximum altitude of 6,000 kilometers (3,730 miles) before landing in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, according to South Korean and Japanese assessments. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un previously called the Hwasong-18 the most powerful weapon of his nuclear forces. Some experts say North Korea likely launched its developmental, road-mobile Hwasong-18 ICBM, a type of solid-fuel weapon that is harder to detect and intercept than its liquid-fuel ICBMs. ![]() SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile in three months on Wednesday, days after it threatened “shocking” consequences to protest what it called provocative United States reconnaissance activity near its territory. ![]()
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