 and two short-range into the East Sea. It is the latest in a series of weapons tests that have raised tensions in the region. The launch came a day after North Korea fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day ever. One of those missile flew in the direction of a populated South Korean island and landed near the rivals' tense sea border, triggering air raid sirens and forcing residents in Ulleung island to evacuate. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area. Yesterday's launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the US and South Korea to 'pay the most horrible price in history' in protest of ongoing South Korean-US military drills that it views as a rehearsal for a potential invasion. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk. For more stories like this, check our news page.){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
North Korea is believed to have a fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in a failed launch towards Japan this morning.
Sirens sounded in the northern regions of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata with residents told to stay indoors, and trains halted due to fears the missile could pass overhead.
Yonhap news agency quoted a South Korean military source saying: ‘North Korea’s ICBM launch is presumed to have ended in failure.’
Japan’s defence minister Yasukazu Hamada said it ‘disappeared’ from radar above the Sea of Japan, about 683 miles off the coast of Japan, after reaching an altitude of 1,200 miles and flying 460 miles.