Pentagon says North Korea’s ICBM was new missile, unseen before
The recently launched North Korean ballistic missile was of a new type, Pentagon officials say.
The Pentagon on Wednesday described North Korea’s recently launched intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as a new type of missile that “we’ve not seen before,” and condemned the launch as escalatory and destabilizing.
Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis told a news briefing that the ICBM was fired from a mobile launcher and confirmed the presence of a re-entry vehicle on top of it.
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The U.S. military also said that it was capable of defending the United States against the “nascent” threat posed by North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capability following Pyongyang’s first test of an ICBM on July 4.
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