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South Korean President warns against “misjudgment” in wake of third DPRK ICBM launch

Any consideration of preemptive strike on North Korea must be "prevented": Moon

The U.S. cannot consider a preemptive strike against North Korea as a response to the country’s latest missile test and all sides must avoid “misjudgment,” South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday.

The President ordered a meeting of Seoul’s National Security Council (NSC) at 0324 KST, seven minutes after Pyongyang was reported to have fired a ballistic missile.

The test, which the U.S. Department of Defense has assessed to have been of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), was North Korea’s first in 75 days.

“If North Korea’s ballistic missile which can cross the continents is completed, the situation will