North Korea appears to have fired a new type of ballistic missile, 'possibly solid fuel', South Korea's military says, a technology that has long been a goal for Kim Jong-un's banned weapons programmes
People watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing a ballistic missile of intermediate range or longer, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea.
South Korea's military said it had "detected one ballistic missile with a medium range or longer fired from the Pyongyang area at 0723 ". Japanese officials earlier confirmed the missile had not fallen within the country's territory and posed no threat to residents. The United States said it "strongly condemns" North Korea for what the White House described as the test of a "long-range ballistic missile," as it accused Pyongyang of inflaming regional tensions.The launch is the latest in a string of banned weapons tests conducted by Pyongyang, which has already fired several of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles this year.
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