This picture from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) taken on Aug. 29 and released on Aug. 30 shows North Korea’s intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off from the launching pad at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang. North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
on Tuesday after 74 days without a missile launch.
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North Korea fired the missile, its first launch since mid-September, a week after U.S. President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a U.S. list of countries it says support terrorism.
The designation allows the United States to impose more sanctions, although some experts said it risked inflaming tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
