North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile After U.S. Imposes New Sanctions

KCNA

North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the ocean early Friday morning, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

The missile, believed to be a Rodong model, flew about 500 miles across North Korea before falling into waters off the country's east coast, Yonhap said.

The missile launch came after the U.S. on Wednesday placed new sanctions on the authoritarian regime. The sanctions were a response to the launch of another ballistic missile by North Korea on Feb. 7 as well as a nuclear test on Jan. 6, the White House said in a statement.

"The U.S. and the global community will not tolerate North Korea's illicit nuclear and ballistic missile activities, and we will continue to impose costs on North Korea until it comes into compliance with its international obligations," Wednesday's statement said.

KCNA

Last week, North Korean state media reported that during a missile launch test, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un spoke out against the U.S. and South Korea's joint military exercises.

"We remain unperturbed in face of the enemies' any dangerous saber-rattling under our eyes, but if they destroy even a single tree or a blade of grass in our inviolable territory, I will issue a prompt order to launch attack with all military strike means including nuclear weapons and strike the Park regime and hordes of the puppet military with deadly baptism of fire so that they may not exist any longer," he said, according to North Korean state media.

The dictator also posed with a mock-up of a "miniature nuclear warhead."

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