Military And Intelligence Brief -- September 15, 2017

Eye on Guam: Friday's missile test flew 2,300miles - 200miles further than the distance from Pyongyang to U.S. Pacific territory of Guam - and landed in the sea

Daily Mail: North Korea proves it CAN hit Guam with fresh missile launch: Kim Jong-un brags that he has 'won a shining victory' over America after firing missile 2,300 miles - enough to hit US territory

* North Korea has launched another intercontinental ballistic missile over northern Japan
* Test missile landed 1,240 miles off the island of Hokkaido, just before 7am local time on Friday
* It flew some 2,300 miles, which is far enough to reach the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam
* Yesterday, North Korea threatened to bomb Japan after the latest round of UN sanctions
* In response to the launch, the Japanese government said they will not tolerate more provocation

Kim Jong-un has called Friday's missile test launch over Japan a 'shining victory in the standoff with the United States', claiming that the U.S. is in 'mortal fear' of North Korea.

The missile flew over the northern island of Hokkaido, where thousands were awoken by air-raid sirens for the second time in just three weeks, and landed some 1,240 miles off the cape of Erimo just before 7am local time (10pm Thursday GMT).

The rocket, believed to be a intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), flew for about 19 minutes over a distance of about 2,300 miles, according to South Korea's military - far enough to reach the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, which is 2,100 miles from North Korea.

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Military And Intelligence Brief -- September 15, 2017

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