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.
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