North Korea fires possible ICBM, South Korean officials say

South Koreans watch news of North Korea's latest short-range ballistic missile launch at Seoul Station in central Seoul Thursday. Earlier that day, the North’s Foreign Ministry threatened ″fiercer″ military responses to the U.S. committment to bolstering extended deterrence to South Korea and Japan. [AP/YONHAP]

 
South Korean military officials said Friday that North Korea seems to have fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). A missile was fired from North Korea toward the east, according to the officials.
 
 

BY KIM JEE-HEE [kim.jeehee@joongang.co.kr]