North Korea Fires a Ballistic Missile, in a Further Challenge to Trump
2017-11-29 09:17:34 source：New York Times
November 28, 2017
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday for the first time in four months, defying President Trump’s warnings to halt its weapons program and his decision to once again list the country as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Mr. Trump’s reaction to the launch was more muted than in the past, when he lobbed insults at the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un and threatened “fire and fury” that would “totally destroy” the North.
“We will take care of it,” he told reporters in Washington. “It is a situation that we will handle.”
The missile took off from around Pyongsong, a town northeast of Pyongyang, the capital, at 3:17 a.m., and it flew east for about 53 minutes before landing off the north of Honshu, Japan’s largest island, nearly 600 miles from the launch site.
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