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A man watches a television showing a news broadcast using file video of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, Nov. 5, 2024, after the North test fired a salvo of short-range ...
PHOTO: A man walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on Oct. 31, 2024. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
The missile was launched from a site near the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, at 7:10 a.m. local time (6:10 p.m. Wednesday ET), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks around what North Korea state media says is a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on March 24, 2022.
Mars Artillery Type 19) is a North Korean solid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). In its maiden flight on 31 October 2024, the Hwasong-19 flew 1,001.2 km (622.1 mi) for 85 minutes and 56 seconds before landing in the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, with a maximum altitude of 7,687.5 km (4,776.8 mi).
The missile that had the first stage to be used in this test was not officially named, instead, North Korean state media depicting it as "an intermediate-range solid-fuel ballistic missile" and claimed the test was a success, while South Korea and Japan claim the missile exploded before releasing any warheads. [24] [25]
The North Korean test, its first weapons display in a month, came as the country protests the regional deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier for a joint training with South Korea and Japan.