The South Korean military confirmed the firing of a long-range missile from North Korea on Monday morning as Pyongyang announced that one of its top diplomats held a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to cement their close alliance. North Korea is a communist rogue regime largely ostracized from the free world. China has long been North Korea’s top diplomatic partner and is a party to the Korean War, which ended active hostilities in 1953 but is technically ongoing, as neither side signed a peace treaty or...

North Korea on Monday tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that has the capability to reach anywhere in the U.S., according to government officials in Japan and South Korea. South Korean government officials said it was a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), likely referring to North Korea’s Hwasong-18 ICBM, which has solid propellants that make it harder to detect than liquid-fueled weapons, The Associated Press reported.

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North Korea launched a possible intercontinental ballistic missile on Monday morning in what analysts said indicated the growing reliability of the reclusive state’s illegal weapons program. The missile launched Monday exhibited the range to hit anywhere in the United States, according to a preliminary assessment from the Japanese Defense Ministry.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile into the sea Monday in a resumption of its weapons testing activities, its neighbors said, as the North vows retaliatory steps against U.S. and South Korean moves to boost their nuclear deterrence plans. South Korea’s military said in a statement that North Korea launched what appeared to be a long-range ballistic missile from its capital region Monday morning. It said South Korea maintain a readiness while exchanging information about the launch with U.S. and Japanese authorities. Japan’s Defense...