North Korea Launches Long-Range Missile, U.S. Official Says
Defying weeks of international warnings of more censure and even sanctions,
North Korea reportedly launched a rocket on Friday, which Washington feared was
a cover for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that one day might
be able to carry a nuclear warhead.
The three-stage Unha-3 rocket blasted off from the Soehae launching site near
North Korea’s western corner with China, said South Korea’s national news agency
Yonhap and YTN, an all-news cable channel.
A spokesman at the Joint Chiefs of Staff who insisted on anonymity until the
government’s formal announcement said that South Korea believed that the
launching indeed took place.
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