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North Korean missile test ends in failure, as South and U.S. watch for ICBM test

North Korea is reportedly working up to testing of a longer-range intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the whole of the continental U.S.
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday, after North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile."
Updated March 16, 2022 at 11:48 AM ET

SEOUL — An attempted North Korean missile launch ended in apparent failure Wednesday, according to South Korea's military. It comes after days of close monitoring by Seoul and Washington, in anticipation of a possible intercontinental ballistic missile test, which Pyongyang has not conducted since 2017.

The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff say the projectile was launched from Pyongyang's Sunan district. The Sunan airfield was the site of test-launches on Feb. 27 and

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