Tensions rise as Washington says NKorea tested its 1st ICBM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States asserted Tuesday that North Korea’s latest missile launch was indeed an intercontinental ballistic missile, as the North had boasted and the U.S. and South Korea had feared. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the development — the North’s first test launch of a missile capable of reaching the U.S. — a “new escalation of the threat” to the U.S. and the world.
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