North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile, Challenging Trump

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Trump denounced North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test, while Senator Chuck Schumer of New York said China should “put the wood to North Korea.”

By REUTERS and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Photo by Ahn Young-Joon/Associated Press. Watch in Times Video

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea off its eastern coast on Sunday, in what South Korea called the North’s first attempt to test President Trump’s policy on the isolated country.

A projectile believed to be a modified version of the North’s intermediate-range ballistic missile Musudan took off at 7:55 a.m. from Banghyon, a town near North Korea’s northwestern border with China, and flew 310 miles before falling in the sea, the South Korean military said. Earlier, the United States Strategic Command issued a statement identifying the missile as a medium- or intermediate-range system that “did not pose a threat to North America.”

South Korea condemned the missile launching, saying that it violated a series of United Nations Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from developing or testing ballistic missile and nuclear weapons technologies. It also said the North had launched the missile to raise tensions over its weapons programs and to use it as leverage in dealing with the Trump administration.

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