North Korea fired a suspected long-range missile on Friday, South Korea's military said, a day after the North resumed its testing activities in an apparent protest over U.S. moves to solidify its alliances with South Korea and Japan.
North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese territorial waters Friday, its neighbors said, the second such major weapons test this month thatSouth Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the missile was launched at 10:15 a.m. local time Friday from Pyongyang. It traveled a distance of about 620 miles , at an altitude of 3,790 miles , and reached a speed of Mach 22, before landing in the East Sea.
A"seek cover order" for the Misawa Air Base in northern Japan was issued as a"precautionary measure" by the commander of the 35th Fighter Wing, the U.S. base said in a"At this time, there are no additional indications or warnings of an immediate threat to Misawa Air Base," the statement read. The Hwasong-17 has a longer potential range than the others and its huge size suggests it's designed to carry multiple nuclear warheads to defeat missile defense systems. Some experts say the Nov. 3 test showed some technological progress in the development of the Hwasong-17, given that in its earlier test in March, the missile exploded soon after liftoff.
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