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		</div><p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for more weapons tests targeting the Pacific Ocean, a day after his nation for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan.<br />
Tuesday&#8217;s aggressive missile launch &#8211; probably the longest ever from North Korea &#8211; over the territory of a close US ally sends a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games nearby. </p>
<p>Pyongyang&#8217;s official Korean Central News Agency said it was a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile that the North first successfully tested in May and threatened to fire into waters near Guam earlier this month.<br />
Mr Kim was present for intermediate range missile launch over Japan, the agency said.</p>
<p>He expressed &#8220;great satisfaction&#8221; over the launch which he called a &#8220;meaningful prelude&#8221; to containing Guam, which is home to key US military bases that North Korea finds threatening. He said it is &#8220;necessary to positively push forward the work for putting the strategic force on a modern basis by conducting more ballistic rocket launching drills with the Pacific as a target in the future&#8221;.</p>
<p>The launch seemed designed to show that North Korea can back up a threat to target the US territory of Guam, if it chooses to do so, while also establishing a potentially dangerous precedent that could see future missiles flying over Japan. South Korea said the missile travelled 1,677 miles and reached a maximum height of 341 miles as it flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump said North Korea had signalled its &#8220;contempt for its neighbours&#8221; and that &#8220;all options are on the table&#8221; in terms of a US response. He said that &#8220;threatening and destabilising actions only increase the North Korean regime&#8217;s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_3162.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_3162.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="324" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-117889" /></a></p>
<p>Any new test worries Washington and its allies because it presumably puts North Korea a step closer to its goal of an arsenal of nuclear missiles that can reliably target the US. North Korea has conducted launches at an unusually fast pace this year &#8211; 13 times, Seoul says &#8211; and some analysts believe it could have viable long-range nuclear missiles before the end of Mr Trump&#8217;s first term in early 2021.</p>
<p>Officials on Guam said the threat level did not change and people in the territory were safe. Guam homeland security adviser George Charfauros said the latest &#8220;sabre-rattling&#8221; did not come as a surprise since the country in previous years has increased its rhetoric and threats around annual war games that are currently under way between the US and South Korea.</p>
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