N. Korea test fires ballistic missile, says Japan

North Korea launched a possible intercontinental ballistic missile on Monday morning in what analysts said indicated the growing reliability of the reclusive state’s illegal weapons programme.

The missile launched Monday exhibited the range to hit anywhere in the United States, according to a preliminary assessment from the Japanese Defence Ministry.

“The ICBM-class ballistic missile launched this time, if calculated based on the trajectory, depending on weight of warhead, could have a flying range of over 15,000 kilometres (9,320 miles), meaning the whole of the US territory would be within range,” Shingo Miyake, parliamentary vice-minister of defence, told reporters at a news conference in Tokyo.

Japanese authorities reported the missile flew at a highly lofted trajectory for about 73 minutes and to an altitude of 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) and a distance of about 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) before falling into the sea west of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

If would need to be fired at a flatter trajectory to hit the United States.

(CNN)

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