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N Korea at crossroads

North Korea launches apparent ICBM ahead of South Korea-Japan summit

Pyongyang conducts near-daily tests amid joint South-U.S. military drills

People watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, at a railway station in Seoul on March 16.   © Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan on Thursday, hours before South Korea's president was due to fly to Tokyo for a summit expected to discuss ways to counter the nuclear-armed North.

North Korea has conducted multiple missile launches this week amid ongoing joint South Korea-U.S. military drills that Pyongyang condemns as hostile actions.

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