SEOUL: North Korea said Friday that its latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch was intended to send a 'stronger warning' over combined US military exercises with South Korea, blaming those for creating a 'most unstable security environment' in the region.
Thursday's launch from North Korea's capital area came hours before South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol traveled to Tokyo for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The meeting underscored Seoul's urgency to tighten security cooperation with a fellow US ally in the face of North Korean nuclear threats.
GRIM MESSAGE This picture, taken on Thursday, March 16, 2023, and released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday, March 17, shows the launch of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Pyongyang International Airport. North Korea said the projectile it test-fired on March 16 was an intercontinental ballistic missile known as Hwasong-17, the state news agency KCNA reported. AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS
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