After a month of relative silence, observers believe North Korea test-fired its new long-range missile on Monday morning [local time] from a site near the Pyongyang capital region, NBC News reports. US, South Korean and Japanese military monitored the projectile, which landed in the Sea of Japan with no injuries reported so far. North Korea may have tried to hide the test at the end of a volley of shorter-range missiles that was done hours before.
“The armed forces of (North Korea) will thoroughly neutralize the U.S. and its vassal forces’ attempt to ignite a nuclear war. Any attempt by the hostile forces to use armed force against (North Korea) will face a preemptive and deadly counteraction,” the government of Donald Trump’s lover, Kim Jong-un, said in a statement.