North Korea missile said to have exploded shortly after launch
The country is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the US mainland with an atomic warhead
Seoul — A new North Korean missile test failed on Wednesday, South Korea and the US said, two weeks after Pyongyang launched four rockets, in what it called a drill for an attack on US bases in Japan. The nuclear-armed North is under several sets of UN sanctions over its atomic and ballistic missile programmes. It is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the US mainland with an atomic warhead, and staged two nuclear tests and multiple missile launches in 2016. North Korea fired one missile from an air base in the eastern port of Wonsan on Wednesday morning, but the launch "is believed to have failed", Seoul’s defence ministry said in a statement, adding it was analysing what type of missile was involved. The US military said the missile exploded shortly after launch. "US Pacific Command detected what we assess was a failed North Korean missile launch attempt … in the vicinity of Kalma. A missile appears to have exploded within seconds of launch," said spokesp...
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