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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shweta Sharma

North Korea fires ballistic missile after US sanctions bankers in blow to hopes for Trump-Kim summit

North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards its eastern waters on Friday, the South Korean military said, one day after Pyongyang decried American sanctions imposed on its banking officials accused of laundering money for the country’s nuclear weapons programme.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said they tracked a missile that flew cross-country after it was launched from an inland area in the western county of Taekwan, near the border with China.

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