North Korea Admits Missile Launches Were Test of Possible Strike Against U.S. Bases in Japan

Communist North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on March 7 that the nation’s launch of four missiles the previous day was part of practice tests to hone its ability to strike U.S. military bases in Japan.

The four missiles were fired from a launch site on North Korea’s west coast and traveled more than 600 miles across the country before crashing into the Sea of Japan between Japan and the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to local reporters.

During a White House press conference on March 6, a reporter asked Press Secretary Sean Spicer for the White House’s reaction to North Korea’s firing of the four ballistic missiles.

 

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