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North Korea expert on claimed ICBM test: ‘We should be worried’

By Travis J. Tritten
Published July 4, 2017 1:53pm ET
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North Korea expert on claimed ICBM test: ‘We should be worried’
North Korea leader Kim Jung Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest. North Korea claimed to have tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile in a launch Tuesday. | (KRT via AP Video)

North Korea was sending a message of defiance to the Trump administration with its claimed launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile days after a summit meeting, according to an expert with the Wilson Center.

The regime undertook its latest test Monday following a meeting between President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in about blocking North Korea from developing long-range nuclear weapons.

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