North Korea's Missile Launch
An apparently failed test comes amid rising regional tensions.
North Korea tested a missile on Sunday local time (Saturday evening U.S. East Coast time), following its Saturday military parades marking the “Day of the Sun”—the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founder and the grandfather of Kim Jong Un, the country’s present leader.
The United States Pacific Command the missile “blew up almost immediately.” In a statement, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said that “the president and his military team are aware of North Korea’s most recent
