WASHINGTON: US Strategic Command said on Thursday it had tracked two attempted missile launches by North Korea since Wednesday evening, neither of which posed a threat to North America.
Army Lieutenant Colonel Martin O’Donnell, a STRATCOM spokesman, said Strategic Command detected and tracked "what we assess were attempted North Korean missile launches at 4:43 p.m.
US central daylight time (2143 GMT) on Wednesday and at 5:24 a.m. central daylight time (1024 GMT) on Thursday.
"The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) determined the missiles launched from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America," O´Donnell said in a statement.
South Korea´s defense ministry said North Korea fired what appeared to have been an intermediate range ballistic missile on Thursday but it crashed seconds after the test launch.
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