North Korea launched the most powerful ballistic missile in its arsenal just before a summit between Japan and South Korea, with leader Kim Jong Un saying he wanted to ¡°strike fear into the enemies,¡± its state media said.
Kim was on hand with his preteen daughter to watch the Thursday launch of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. The test was prompted by ¡°the frantic, provocative and aggressive large-scale war drills conducted by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet traitors,¡± it¡¯s official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday. It almost never calls its neighbor by its proper name.
The launch of what weapons experts consider to be the world¡¯s largest road-worthy ICBM came hours before South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol went to Japan for a rare summit with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to discuss ways to mend differences and cooperate with their mutual U.S. ally to counter the nuclear threats made by Kim¡¯s regime.
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