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		</div><p>North Korea fired a ballistic from its capital Pyongyang towards the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, South Korea&#8217;s military has said.</p>
<p>Seoul&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the South Korean and US militaries were analysing the launch and did not immediately confirm how far the projectile travelled and where it landed.</p>
<p>Japanese officials said the missile flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and landed in the Pacific Ocean. There was no damage to ships or anything else reported. Japan&#8217;s NHK TV said the missile separated into three parts.</p>
<p>South Korea&#8217;s military said the missile flew 1,678 miles, with a height of 341 miles.</p>
<p>The launch comes days after the North fired what was assessed as three short-range ballistic missiles into the sea and a month after its second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which analysts say could reach deep into the US mainland when perfected.</p>
<p>The North has also threatened to fire some of its missiles towards Guam and expressed anger over the ongoing annual war games between the United States and South Korea.</p>
<p>The new missile launch comes as North Korea wants to take its complaints about the war games to the UN Security Council, saying the annual manoeuvres are recklessly provocative at a time of tension.</p>
<p>The letter, dated Friday, asks Egypt as Security Council president to schedule a discussion urgently.</p>
<p>The Egyptian mission did not have any immediate comment on Monday.</p>
<p>Pyongyang regularly argues that the US-South Korean military exercises are an invasion rehearsal.</p>
<p>This year, they come after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump of the US traded warlike threats.</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s UN ambassador, Ja Song Nam, writes in the letter that the exercises are &#8220;provocative and aggressive&#8221; when the Korean peninsula is &#8220;like a time bomb&#8221;.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for the US state department disputed that, saying the only purpose of the manoeuvres is to improve readiness to defend South Korea.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Our annual joint military exercises are transparent, defence-oriented, andhave been carried out regularly and openly under the Combined Forces Command for roughly 40 years,&#8221;</i> said Grace Choi of the department&#8217;s East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau.</p>
<p>In the US, the Pentagon said it was still in the process of assessing the launch.<br />
It said the North American Aerospace Defence Command had determined the missile launch did not pose a threat to North America.</p>
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