25 May 2022 - Seoul, South Korea : (In this pictures taken provided is South Korean Defense Ministry). South Korean and U.S. joint training to fire a ground-to-ground missile on May 25, 2022, in response to North Korea's launch of three ballistic missiles toward the East Sea earlier in the day. (Photo by: Defense Ministry/Sipa USA)
South Korea: Korean Peninsula Tension
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has conducted its longest-ever weapons test, a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that flew over Japan and could reach the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam and beyond. The launch early Tuesday forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and halt trains. It was the most provocative weapons demonstration by North Korea this year, as it pushes to develop a fully fledged nuclear arsenal capable of threatening U.S. allies and the American homeland and earning the country recognition as a nuclear state. The United States strongly condemned what it described as North Korea’s “dangerous and reckless decision” to launch the missile over Japan.
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