North Korea on Sunday launched its most powerful missile since late 2017, potentially marking an end to nearly four years of leader Kim Jong Un’s self-imposed moratorium on long-range tests.
Japan rushed to analyze the launch, the nuclear-armed country’s seventh round of weapons tests this month, with Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, the government’s top spokesman, convening two hurried news conferences Sunday morning.
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