North Korea test-fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile toward the sea, South Korea’s military said, extending a provocative streak in weapons demonstrations this year that U.S. and South Korean officials say may culminate with a nuclear test.
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said it was aware of North Korea’s multiple ballistic missile launches but assessed that the event doesn’t pose an “immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies.”
South Korean and U.S. officials say there are signs that North Korea is also pressing ahead with preparations at its nuclear testing ground in the northeastern town of Punggye-ri. The North’s next nuclear test would be its seventh since 2006 and the first since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear bomb to fit on its ICBMs.
North Korea in March launched an ICBM almost straight up at full-range capacity and saw it fly higher and for longer than any weapon it had ever tested, demonstrating the potential to reach the entirety of the U.S. mainland.
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