Kim Jong Un Seeks to Exploit U.S.-China Tensions With Missile Claims
- ‘North Korea has entered a marathon-like confrontation’
- Nation says it successfully fired intercontinental missile
U.S. Says North Korea Tested an ICBM
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When Kim Jong Un gave the order for what North Korea claims to be its first successful intercontinental ballistic missile test, he knew it would ruffle feathers in Washington and Beijing.
He may have even timed the launch of the missile, which Pyongyang dubbed the Hwasong-14, for maximum effect, ahead of the July 4 holiday in the U.S. and to throw a wrench into a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Germany this week.