BREAKING: US and South Korea FIRE missiles following North Korea ICBM launch – Daily Star

THE US and South Korea have fired missiles in response to an ICBM launch ordered by tubby tyrant Kim Jong-un.

The United States and South Korea conducted a live-fire exercise after North Korea launched an ICBM on Friday, the U.S. military said.

Both nations carried out the live-fire exercise after the Hermit Kingdom fired the deadly missile on Friday, the US military said.

It added the exercise used missiles that were launched into the territorial waters of South Korea, along the east coast.

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Since 2008, photographer Eric Lafforgue ventured to North Korea six times. Thanks to digital memory cards, he was able to save photos that was forbidden to take inside the segregated state

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President Donald Trump blasted Pyongyang for firing a second ICBM this month.

In a written statement he said: Threatening the world, these weapons and tests further isolate North Korea, weaken its economy, and deprive its people.

The United States will take all necessary steps to ensure the security of the American homeland and protect our allies in the region.

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Tubby tyrant Kim Jong-un gloats as the world reacts to the news of his successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile. As Trump took to Twitter to slam the secretive state, the world watches in fear: is this how WW3 starts?

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Kim Jong-un watches as the missile launches

The United States will take all necessary steps to ensure the security of the American homeland and protect our allies in the region

The missile is understood to have been in the air for 45 minutes before it fell into Japanese waters.

Pyongyangs latest launch comes one day after the communist nation marked the 64th anniversary of the armistice that effectively ended the 1950s Korean War.

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