People watch a TV report about North Korea's ballistic missile launch at Seoul Station. According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, a North Korean intermediate-range ballistic missile was fired from the Pyongyang region, traversing some 600 kilometers before hitting the waters of the East Sea. -/YNA/dpa
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean military said on Tuesday. North Korea launched what appeared to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) from the Pyongyang area at about 6:53 am local time (2153 GMT on Monday) toward the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, the general staff in Seoul (JCS) said.
According to the South Korean military the missile travelled some 600 kilometres before ending in the sea. Data on the missile test is being analyzed in cooperation with the US and Japan, it said.
