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Defiant N’Korea at it again! Fires highest ballistic missile which could reach mainland USA

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Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un has fired it’s first missile since September 15 according to officials in South Korea, Japan and the United States.

Moments after the missile was fired, South Korean army officials confirmed the development when they spoke to South Korean news agency Yonhap.

“North Korea launched an unidentified ballistic missile eastward from the vicinity of Pyongsong, South Pyongan Province, at dawn today”, South Korean officials said.

The US Department of Defense after an initial assessment of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired by North Korea said the missile is capable of carrying nuclear warheads and could reach the mainland of the United States.

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According to the US Defense Minister the missile went higher than ever before, describing it as a step towards Pyongyang building missiles that can “threaten everywhere in the world, basically”.

“With these tests, North Korea wants to demonstrate to the world the range its missiles have,” Al Jazeera’s Kathy Novak, reporting from South Korea’s capital, Seoul, said.

Reacting to the missile launch, President Donald Trump of the USA said “it is a situation we will handle”, adding that the US stance on the North Korea issue would not change.

This is the first time since the month of September, when North Korea fired a ballistic missile over the Japanese island Hokkaido, eventually crashing into the Pacific Ocean.

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