North Korea fires ICBM, longest-ever flight time

North Korea on Wednesday launched an intercontinental ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan, marking the longest-ever flight time for a projectile fired by the country at 74 minutes, the Japanese government said.The ICBM was fired at around 9:59 a.m. from a site near Pyongyang and fell into the sea some 250 kilometers west of Okushiri Island, which lies just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, at about 11:13 a.m., the government said.The launch came after Pyongyang recently lambasted U.S. military activities near its territory as provocative, while the United States plans …READ FULL ARTICLE