N Korea ICBM launch appears to have failed
North Korea unsuccessfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday during a new salvo of launches, the South Korean military said, with Washington urging all nations to enforce sanctions on Pyongyang.
The launches prompted South Korea and the United States to extend their ongoing joint air drills, the largest-ever such exercises, citing North Korea's "provocations".
People in parts of northern Japan were ordered to seek shelter during the North's latest launches, which included two short-range missiles.
The launches come as Seoul and Washington stage their largest-ever joint air drills, involving hundreds of warplanes from both sides.
Pyongyang has called the exercise, dubbed Vigilant Storm, "an aggressive and provocative military drill targeting the DPRK", and warned that, if it continues, Seoul and Washington will "pay the most horrible price in history."
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