North Korea fired what could be its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, Tokyo and Seoul said, a dramatic return to long-range testing that sparked outrage from neighbours and the United States. South Korea’s military fired a missile barrage into the Sea of Japan in response to the ICBM launch, the first full-range test of Kim Jong Un’s most powerful missiles since 2017. Pyongyang has conducted an unprecedented blitz of nearly a dozen sanctions-busting tests this year. But long-range and nuclear tests have been paused since Kim met then US president Donald Trump for a b…

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