North Korea's claim of what it called a successful launch of a new intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) tipped with a hypersonic warhead is presumed to be "deception," South Korea's military said Tuesday.

North Korea says it carried out its second missile test in two days — and this one was hypersonic. It came as U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited the region.

The ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Monday was a new type of intermediate-range hypersonic missile and it successfully f

North Korea on Tuesday hailed its test-firing of a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile the previous day, claiming it was successful and contained a system that could "deal a serious military strike to a rival.

North Korea fired its first ballistic missile of year into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan - Anadolu Ajansı

North Korea on Tuesday confirmed its test-firing of a new intermediate-range ballistic missile fitted with a hypersonic warhead, a day after the Kim Jong-un regime fired the weapon in a first act of provocation this year,

SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired a suspected hypersonic missile into the East Sea on Monday, the South Korean military said, marking its first provocation this year ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

North Korea launched a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s military confirmed.

North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate range ballistic missile towards the sea to its east, South Korea's military said, in what is Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months. Japan's defence ministry said around noon local time (03:00 GMT) that the projectile had already fallen into the sea.