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North Korea yesterday launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, an ICBM.
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It broke the promise not to conduct nuclear tests and ICBMs after four years, but the Blue House strongly condemned it, and the South Korean military took a military response.
Correspondent Dong-Hoon Jeong.
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Our military captured the projectile at 2:34 p.m.
The projectile soared from the Sunan Airfield near Pyongyang climbed to an altitude of more than 6,200 km and flew over the East Sea for a whopping 1 hour and 11 minutes.
The flight distance was 1,100 km, and the projectile was detected as being 150 km west of the Toshima Peninsula in Hokkaido, the northernmost point of Japan, within the exclusive economic zone.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff estimated that the missile, launched at an elevated angle to reduce the range, was a new ICBM ‘Hwasong 17’.
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“We have detected one intercontinental ballistic missile launched into the East Sea from the Sunan area of Pyongyang.”
On the 27th and 5th of last month, North Korea also launched the Hwasong 17 under the guise of a reconnaissance satellite.
At the time, the launch was a near-vertical high-angle launch that reduced the range to that of a semi-medium-range missile, but this time it was different.
Considering that the altitude has risen to more than 6,000 km, it is presumed that the new ICBM Hwasong-17 has been tested for maximum performance.
It is the first time in four years and four months since November 2017 that North Korea has conducted the largest performance test of an ICBM.
It is the 11th missile that North Korea has launched this year.
Analysts say that the reason the U.S. and South Korea are carrying out a super-strong provocation without responding to the US-ROK request to resume dialogue is because it is now determined that strengthening the national defense power is more urgent than negotiating.
This is Dong-Hoon Jeong from MBC News.
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