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North Korea’s Kim says Hwasong-17 ICBM launch will ‘strike fear into the enemies’

By Thomas Maresca

SEOUL, March 17 (UPI) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the secretive state’s latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile would “strike fear into the enemies” and warned of an “irreversible, grave threat” to United States and South Korean military forces, state media reported Friday.

The North fired a Hwasong-17 ICBM, the largest in its arsenal, from Pyongyang International Airport on Thursday, state-run Korean Central News Agency said.

The missile traveled roughly 620 miles and reached a maximum altitude of 3,750 miles before “accurately landing on the preset area in the open waters off the East Sea,” KCNA said.

The launch took place hours ahead of a summit between South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on regional security issues in Tokyo.

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