North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a visit to the National Defense University in Pyongyang on Oct.
North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, a day after Seoul reported the North was making preparations to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The launch, at a sharply raised angle, was from an area near the North’s capital, Pyongyang, at 7:10 a.m. (2210 GMT), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. The Japanese government later said the missile dropped into the sea at 8:37 a.m. (2337 GMT).
