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SEOUL – North Korea has fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the sea off South Korea’s east coast, Seoul’s military said Monday, the latest in an apparent volley of tests by Pyongyang this year.
Japan’s coast guard, citing the defense ministry, said shortly after the initial announcement that the missile appeared to have already fallen. Pyongyang’s ally Moscow in March used its United Nations Security Council veto to effectively end UN monitoring of violations of the raft of sanctions on Kim Jong Un’s government for its nuclear and weapons program.
Cruise missiles tend to be jet-propelled and fly at a lower altitude than more sophisticated ballistic missiles, making them harder to detect and intercept.
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