In first launch of 2024, North Korea tests intermediate-range missile. The moves by the North have helped push Japan and South Korea closer on security issues, while also prompting Tokyo, Seoul and Washington to reach a landmark agreement at Camp David in the United States last year to help rein in Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Last month, the three countries announced the activation of a real-time system for sharing data on tracking North Korean missiles, while also establishing a multiyear plan for trilateral military drills. North Korea launched an apparent intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) on Sunday — its first launch this year — with the missile falling into the Sea of Japan outside Japan's exclusive economic zone. The launch, the North's first since it tested a Hwasong-18 solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile on Dec. 18, landed in waters outside the EEZ, which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from Ja...
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