Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile early Sunday morning.<br />What's significant about this latest launch, is that it comes just a few days after the new South Korean President... with a friendlier approach to inter-Korean relations... is sworn into office.<br />Hwang Hojun starts us off with a closer look into the regretful move from up North. <br />North Korea has carried out its first military provocation since the launch of the new administration in South Korea just four days ago.<br />This is the seventh missile provocation by Pyongyang this year alone, and comes just two weeks after a missile test that South Korean and US officials said failed.<br />South Korea's military confirmed that the North launched a ballistic missile Sunday morning, around 5:30 a.m. Seoul time, from an area near the city of Kusong, about 120 kilometers northwest of the regime's capital. <br />According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the missile flew some 700 kilometers, and judging by the flight distance, military experts are looking at the launch as a successful one.<br />The exact type of missile it was is not yet clear, but the U.S. Pacific Command said the flight was not consistent with that of an intercontinental ballistic missile.<br />However, Japan's defense minister said that considering the missile's trajectory... there is a chance it was an ICBM or even a new type of missile.<br />According to Japan, the missile reached an altitude of more than 2-thousand kilometers in a matter of about 30 minutes before falling into the East Sea in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone,... suggesting it could have been a bigger missile like an ICBM launched at a steep, or "lofted," angle.<br />In other words, if that same missile was launched on a standard trajectory, it could have easily reached a distance of over 4-thousand kilometers.<br />If that's true, the missile could have reached American soil, because the distance to Alaska is about 57-hundred kilometers and to Hawaii about 75-hundred kilometers,... while an ICBM has a range of about 5 or <br />
