After two months of quiet, North Korea launches another ballistic missile [Updated]

Enlarge / A Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) photo of the ballistic missile test on August 29, 2017. North Korea has conducted another test. (credit: DPRK state media, via Getty Images)

South Korean and US officials have confirmed that North Korea has apparently conducted yet another ballistic missile test. The missile launched at just after 3am Wednesday local time from Sin-ni in South Pyongyang. It is the first North Korean test since an intermediate-range missile test in September.

In a statement to the press, a spokesperson for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile early this morning from Pyongsong, South Pyongan [Province], to the east direction. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff is analyzing more details of the missile with the US side."

The US Department of Defense and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have made an initial assessment that the missile was an ICBM, according to Office of the Secretary of Defense spokesperson Col. Robert Manning. The missile traveled 1,000 kilometers, flew over Japan, and landed in the sea east of Japan within its exclusive economic zone.

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