North Korea Claims It Tested First Intercontinental Missile

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday claimed it successfully test-launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile, a potential game-changing development in what may be the world’s most dangerous nuclear standoff and, if true, a direct rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump’s earlier declaration that such a test “won’t happen!”
In typically heated rhetoric, North Korea’s Academy of Defense Science said the test of an ICBM — the Hwas