U.S. officials condemned North Korea’s launch of a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that the Japanese defense minister said has the potential to reach the entire continental United States.
A passerby looks at a television screen in Tokyo showing a news report about North Korea firing a ballistic missile on Nov. 18. North Korea’s launch of a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile
Harris convened an emergency meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit with leaders from Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Canada to condemn the launch in a previously unscheduled media briefing. State Department spokesman Ned Price said the launch demonstrates the threat North Korea’s “unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs pose” to its neighbors, including South Korea and Japan.
Depending on the weight of any warhead it carried, Hamada estimated the missile could have a range of more than 9,000 miles, “in which case, all of the U.S. mainland would be included in its range,” he said.“North Korea is continuing to carry out provocative actions at a frequency never seen before,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at the APEC summit. “There is the possibility that North Korea will launch further missiles.
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