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North Korea launched an unknown ballistic missile
North Korea launched a ballistic missile on the morning of Wednesday, November 29 (evening of November 28 Moscow time), Yonhap news agency reported , citing the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of South Korea.
"North Korea launched an unidentified ballistic missile eastward at dawn," the South Korean military said. According to them, the missile was launched from a launch site in Pyongan-namdo province in the west of the DPRK. South Korea and the US are analyzing the trajectory of the missile.
North Korea last tested a ballistic missile on September 15, 2017. Then the rocket flew over the territory of Japan.
In early September, the North Korean military successfully tested a thermonuclear warhead designed to be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile. The military from South Korea and the United States estimated the yield of the bomb at 160 kilotons, which is 10 times more than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. After that, the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against the DPRK.
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