SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a day after Seoul reported the North was making preparations to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The launch, at a sharply raised angle, was from an area near the North’s capital, Pyongyang, the Joint Chiefs said in a statement. It did not confirm whether the missile had dropped.