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Anthony Kuhn

North Korea fires a ballistic missile over Japan

A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on October 4, 2022. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Tuesday that flew over Japan for the first time in five years, the South Korean government said, triggering alerts across Japan.

Tuesday's North Korean launch put U.S. military bases in Guam within reach. The U.S. government condemned the launch and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called his Japanese and South Korean counterparts to coordinate a response, the White House said.

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