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By Tom Phillips in Beijing for The Guardian.com, July 28
[....] The launch, late on Friday – which came less than a month after Pyongyang claimed to have tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) – took place in North Korea’s Chagang province, toward the border with China, at about 11.41pm local time, South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said.
US officials told NBC the missile had flown for about 1,000km and had landed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
“We assess that this missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile, as had been expected,” Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said in a statement. “The missile was launched from Mupyong-ni and traveled about 1,000km before splashing down in the Sea of Japan. We are working with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment,” he said [....]
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North Korea Tests a Ballistic Missile That Experts Say Could Hit California
(new headline replacing earlier North Korea Missile Had Potential to Hit U.S. Experts Say)
By DAVID E. SANGER, CHOE SANG-HUN and WILLIAM J. BROAD @ NYTimes.com. 8:29 PM ET
The test was a milestone that American presidents have long declared the United States could not tolerate. It was the second intercontinental missile launch in 24 days.
The byline as well as the headline caught my eye. Sanger & Broad have decades of connections in the field.
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 11:50pm