North Korea launched a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile Wednesday, its neighbors said, two days after it threatened the U.S. over what it said were spy plane incursions into its airspace.
, who is also at the summit, are expected to meet Wednesday as part of efforts to improve relations between their countries, both U.S. allies with close ties to NATO but not formal membership.
The launch also came as Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United States’ top general, was in Hawaii for a rare trilateral meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts., said this week that a U.S. military spy plane illegally entered North Korea’s eastern exclusive economic zone eight times Monday and was chased away by North Korean warplanes.
The South Korean military said the flight activity by the U.S.-South Korea alliance was normal and rejected North Korea’s claims as “utterly ridiculous.”
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