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Michael Howie

North Korea releases pictures from space taken from ‘biggest missile launch in years’

This combo picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows what Pyongyang says is the test-fire of a Hwasong 12-type missile

(Picture: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Image)

North Korea has released photographs from space which it says were taken from a ballistic missile capable of reaching the US territory of Guam.

Pyongyang has claimed Sunday’s launch of the intermediate-range Hwasong-12 missile was its most significant in years.

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