SEOUL: North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday, two US government sources said, a week after President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a US list of countries that it says support terrorism.
Later, the Pentagon said that it had detected a ?probable? missile launch from North Korea. He said the probable launch was detected at 1:30 pm EST (1830 GMT). The missile flew to the east and the South Korean military is analyzing details of the launch with the United States, according to a report from South Korean news agency Yonhap, citing South Korea?s Joint Chiefs of Staff. NHK in Japan, citing the defense ministry, reported that the missile may have landed in the waters of Japan?s exclusive economic zone. The US source told Reuters no further details were immediately available.
After firing missiles at a rate of about two or three a month since April, North Korea paused its missile launches in late September, after it fired a missile that passed over Japan?s northern Hokkaido island on Sept. 15. Washington has said repeatedly that all options are on the table in dealing with North Korea, including military ones, but that it prefers a peaceful solution by Pyongyang agreeing to give up its nuclear and missile programs.
11-29-2017, 02:00 PM
North Korea fires ballistic missile: US sources
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