North Korea Says Missile It Tested Can Carry Nuclear Warhead

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North Korea Says Missile It Tested Can Carry Nuclear Warhead
The New York Times  By CHOE SANG-HUN

People watch a television showing a graphic of a North Korean missile launch at at railway station in Seoul on Sunday.© Agence France-Presse — Getty Images People watch a television showing a graphic of a North Korean missile launch at at railway station in Seoul on Sunday.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Monday that the missile it launched a day earlier was a new ballistic missile that can carry a large, heavy nuclear warhead, warning that the United States’ military bases in the Pacific were within its range.

North Korea launched what American officials called an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Sunday from the northwestern town of Kusong. The missile, believed to have a longer range than any other North Korean missile tested so far, landed in the sea between the North and Japan, sparking angry comments from President Trump, as well as from President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.

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