North Korea fires long range missile amidst international warning

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North Korea on Sunday defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket that the United Nations and others call a cover for a banned test of technology for a missile that could strike the U.S. mainland.


The rocket was fired from North Korea’s west coast and tracked separately by the United States, Japan and South Korea. At an emergency national security council meeting in Seoul, the country’s president called the firing an “intolerable provocation.” North Korea calls its launches part of a peaceful space program and said its state media would soon make a “special announcement.”