The long-range missile launched by North Korea on the 18th reached an altitude of about 6,100 km, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the missile launched by North Korea this morning was detected with a flight distance of about 1,000 km, an altitude of about 6,100 km, and a speed of about Mach 22.
North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile and ICBM into the East Sea from the Sunan area of Pyongyang at around 10:15 am today.
The missile launched by North Korea flew over an hour and fell at 11:20 am on the west side of Oshima, Oshima, Hokkaido, Japan, Japanese media reported.
The altitude and flight distance of the ICBM North Korea launched today is similar to that of the ICBM North Korea launched on March 24 this year.
When launched in March, North Korea's long-range missile flew 1,090 km at an altitude of 6,248.5 km.
At the time, North Korea claimed to have launched a Hwasong-17 missile, but South Korean military authorities evaluated it as a Hwasong-15 missile.
Both the Hwasong-15 and Hwasong-17 are evaluated to have the thrust to strike the US mainland, but re-entry has not been verified.
North Korea's ICBM launch today is 15 days after launching a long-range missile believed to be a 'Hwasong-17' in the Sunan area of Pyongyang on the morning of the 3rd.
At the time of launch on the 3rd, it succeeded in separating the second stage, but it did not fly normally after that.