North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday for the first time since 2017, a major escalation of tensions over Kim Jong Un's weapons program.
“These series of actions taken by North Korea threaten the peace and security of our country, the region and the international community, and they are absolutely unacceptable,” he said from Brussels, where he landed Thursday toSouth Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff also said the missile appeared to be an ICBM. The South Korean military swiftly responded by test-firing multiple ground, sea and air missiles into the sea between Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
The launch ended a self-imposed moratorium on testing ICBMs and nuclear weapons that North Korea declared in 2018 ahead of diplomatic talks with former President Donald Trump that ultimately collapsed. The country is barred from such tests under United Nations Security Council resolutions. Japan’s top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, said the missile was launched east toward the sea. He said it landed at 3:44 p.m. local time about 90 miles west of Oshima Peninsula on northern Hokkaido Island, within Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
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