North Korea fires huge nuclear capable missile ‘designed to hit America’ as US soldiers told to seek shelter

NORTH Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that has sufficient range to reach the US, officials say. US Air Bases in Japan urged personnel to take cover before the missile landed just 200km off Japan. North Korea has launched a missile The launch comes a day after a smaller missile launch by the North and its warning of “fiercer military responses” to the U.S. boosting its regional security presence. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet leaders of Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on Friday to discuss the launch, a White House official said. Harris is in Thailand for the APEC summit, amid heightened geopolitical tensions over the war in Ukraine and other flashpoints such as Taiwan and the Korean peninsula. Friday’s launch adds to a record-breaking year for North Korea’s missile programme, after it resumed testing ICBMs for the first time since 2017 and broke its self-imposed moratorium on long-range launches as denuclearisation talks stalled. Read More on The Sun FOUR-WARNED I am a time traveller from 2671 - here are 4 dates 'big things' will happen KID YOU NOT I'm an Irish traveller - all kids are beautiful but mine are just unbelievable Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada told reporters on Friday that the missile was capable of flying as far as 15,000 km, while Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said it flew to an altitude of about 6,000 km with a range of 1,000 km, before landing in the sea roughly 200 kilometres west of Oshima-Oshima Island in Hokkaido. South Korea’s military projected the missile reached an altitude of 6,100 km and flew 1,000 km at a maximum speed of Mach 22. North Korea often conducts its tests on such “lofted” trajectories where the missile flies much higher into space but to a shorter distance than it would if fired on a normal trajectory. Misawa Air base, which hosts both Japanese and U.S. troops, briefly issued an order to seek cover, according to a post on the base’s Facebook page.