It makes the US and Japan the first countries to detect such a test since Joe Biden became US president.
Pyongyang is prohibited from testing ballistic rockets, thought about compromising weapons, under UN Security Council goals. Both Japan and South Korea have censured the test. It comes only days after North Korea allegedly terminated two non-ballistic rockets into the Yellow Sea. Japan said no flotsam and jetsam had fallen inside its regional waters. The US Pacific Command, which administers military powers in the Asia-Pacific area, said on Thursday that the test featured "the danger that North Korea's illegal weapons program stances to its neighbors and the global local area.
