North Korea fired the missile a week after US President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a US list of countries that Washington says support terrorism. Pentagon spokesman Col. Robert Manning said the Pentagon’s initial assessment was an ICBM launched from Sain Ni in North Korea and travelled about 1,000km before splashing down in the Sea of Japan. A North Korean missile on 29 August was airborne for 14 minutes over Japan. Minutes after North Korea fired the missile, South Korea’s military conducted a missile-firing test in response, the South Korean military said. Two US government sources said earlier that the US government experts believed North Korea could conduct a new missile test within days.

Source: Mint November 28, 2017 20:48 UTC