North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile ‘eastward’: Seoul

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North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile ‘eastward’: Seoul

Photos and videos seen by NK News show a white contrail visible from Pyongyang, indicating launch from Sunan airport

Jeongmin Kim | Shreyas Reddy November 18, 2022

North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile ‘eastward’: Seoul

An earlier North Korean ICBM test | Image: KCNA (March 25, 2022)

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. (Last updated at 5:12 p.m. KST with U.S.-ROK military responses)

North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in an “eastward” direction, South Korea’s military said Friday morning.

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Jeongmin Kim

Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.

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Shreyas Reddy is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter.

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