North Korea ballistic missile test shows regime closer to hitting 'everywhere in the world', US says

The intercontinental ballistic missile was launched in the early hours of this morning, apparently from a mobile launcher near Pyongyang, in the first test from North Korea since it fired a missile over Japan in mid-September.

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It reached an altitude of 4,000 kilometres, flying for 50 minutes before splashing down about 1,000 kilometres away in the sea to Japan's west.