North Korean state media published pictures of the country’s latest missile test early on Tuesday, a day after neighbor South Korea had detected it. The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the missile was fired from a suburb of the capital city Pyongyang and reached a peak altitude of 99.8 kilometers (62 miles). It was a “new-type intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile”, KCNA said.

North Korean state media shows images of latest missile test

North Korean state media published pictures of the country’s latest missile test early on Tuesday, a day after neighbor South Korea had detected it. The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the missile was fired from a suburb of the capital city Pyongyang and reached a peak altitude of 99.8 kilometers (62 miles). It was a “new-type intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile”, KCNA said.