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    • Seoul: North Korean missile exploded in air in failed launch

    A visitor watches a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile with file footage at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) A visitor watches a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile with file footage at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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    SEOUL, South Korea -

    A North Korean missile fired from its capital region exploded soon after its liftoff in an apparent failed weapons launch on Wednesday, South Korea鈥檚 military said, amid speculation that the North has been preparing to launch its longest-range missile in its most significant provocation in years.

    Details of the missile explosion weren鈥檛 immediately known. But the launch, the 10th of its kind this year, shows North Korea is determined to press ahead on its push to modernize its weapons arsenal and pressure its rivals into making concessions amid dormant denuclearization talks.

    The North Korean missile blew up while it was flying at an altitude of less than 20 kilometres, a South Korean military official said requesting anonymity because he wasn鈥檛 publicly authorized to speak to media on the issue. He said the cause of the explosion wasn鈥檛 known.

    South Korea鈥檚 Joint Chiefs of Staff earlier said in a statement that the launch made from the Pyongyang region around 9:30 a.m. (0030 GMT) apparently failed.

    The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command later said that North Korea fired a ballistic missile but didn鈥檛 say whether it was a failed launch. A command statement said the launch didn鈥檛 pose an immediate threat to U.S. territory and its allies but called on North Korea to refrain from further destabilizing acts.

    Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that a flight of a ballistic missile has not been confirmed and that Tokyo is working with Washington and Seoul to further analyze what happened.

    Experts say past failures still have moved North Korea closer to its goal of acquiring a viable nuclear arsenal that could threaten the American homeland. Of eight 鈥淢usudan鈥 intermediate-range missiles tests in 2016, only one of those launches was seen by outside analysts as successful, which led to debates of whether North Korea鈥檚 path toward ICBMs had been cut off.

    However, the North in 2017 flew more powerful intermediate-range missiles over Japan and conducted three successful test-flights of ICBMs that demonstrated a potential range to strike deep into the U.S. mainland.

    North Korea鈥檚 successful satellite launches in 2012 and 2016 鈥 which were viewed by the U.N. as disguised tests of its long-range missile technology 鈥 also followed repeated failures.

    The U.S. and South Korean militaries said last week that North Korea had tested an ICBM system in two recent launches, referring to the developmental Hwasong-17 missile, the North's biggest weapon, which it unveiled during a military parade in October 2020.

    In the two recent launches on Feb. 27 and March 5, the North Korean missiles flew medium-range distances, and experts have said North Korea could eventually perform a full-range ICBM test.

    It wasn鈥檛 clear if Wednesday鈥檚 launch also involved a Hwasong-17 system. If it was an attempt for a full-range Hwasong-17 launch, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would likely have been at the launch site to observe it.

    Earlier Wednesday, North Korea's state news agency released photos of a smiling Kim, clad in a long black leather coat, visiting a towering apartment complex under construction on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The news agency didn鈥檛 say when Kim was there, but it typically reports on his public activities one or two days after they occur.

    After its two previous launches, North Korea said it had tested cameras and other systems for a spy satellite and released what it said were photos taken from space during one of the two tests, but it didn鈥檛 confirm what rocket or missile it launched.

    Observers say North Korea aims to boost its ICBM capability while trying to place its first functioning spy satellite into orbit. Kim has vowed to acquire an improved ICBM and a spy satellite among an array of sophisticated weapons systems he says his country needs to cope with what he calls American hostility.

    The Hwasong-17 could potentially fly up to 15,000 kilometres, far enough to strike anywhere in the U.S. and beyond. The 25-metre missile, which was shown again at a defence exhibition in Pyongyang last year, has yet to be test-launched.

    The three ICBMs that North Korea tested in 2017 were the Hwasong-14 and Hwasong-15. Some analysts say developing a larger missile could mean the country is trying to arm its long-range weapons with multiple warheads to overcome missile defence systems.

    If North Korea makes a new ICBM launch, it would be its highest-profile weapons tests since its third and last ICBM launch in November 2017.

    North Korea may call its potential new ICBM test a rocket launch to place a reconnaissance satellite in space, not a weapons test. That could invite condemnation but likely no fresh U.N. sanctions, some analysts say, since Russia and China wield vetoes on the Security Council and would oppose it.

    Other North Korean missiles tested this year were mostly shorter-range, nuclear-capable weapons which place South Korea and Japan, both key U.S. allies, within striking distance. In January alone, North Korea carried out seven rounds of missile tests, a record number of monthly tests since Kim took power in late 2011.

    U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear program collapsed in 2019 due to wrangling over U.S.-led sanctions on the North. Washington has urged North Korea to return to talks without any preconditions, but Pyongyang has rejected such overtures saying the United States must first withdraw its hostile policies.

    In January, North Korea hinted at lifting its 4-year moratorium on ICBM and nuclear tests. South Korea鈥檚 Defence Ministry said Friday it detected signs that North Korea likely is restoring some of the tunnels at its nuclear testing site that it detonated ahead of the now-dormant nuclear diplomacy.

    The U.S. Treasury Department last week announced new sanctions against three Russian-based entities that aided ongoing development of North Korea鈥檚 military capabilities and two individuals tied to those companies. The sanctions block access to any U.S. assets held by them.

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    Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to this report.

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