TOKYO -- North Korea last month fired what it claimed was a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile, moving the regime a step closer toward a long-desired goal: possessing weapons that can threaten and thus deter the U.S.
The foreboding launch came with the situation on the Korean Peninsula now more fraught than in 2017, when a confrontation with the U.S. raised tensions to a dangerous level.
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