Saying the launch was from a “drill [that] was suddenly organized without previous notice,” the North Korean state news agency KCNA announced a previously unannounced test firing of a new intercontinental missile that made it all the way to the sea off the Korean peninsula, CBS News reports.
The test of the missile, identified as a Hwasong-15 by KCNA, came from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, and according to monitors in Japan and South Korea, it launched on a vertical trajectory but crashed 560 miles off the coast after reaching an altitude of 3,500 miles.