North Korea launched what appeared to be a long-range ballistic missile on Thursday, Tokyo and Seoul officials said, in what would be the Kim Jong Un regime’s most significant weapons test in more than four years.
Initial flight data suggested the missile had flown higher and longer than North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile test in November 2017—a launch that demonstrated that Pyongyang, for the first time, had the capability to strike the U.S. mainland.