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Second Missile Launch Carried Out by N Korea on Thursday Most Likely Failed

© AP Photo / Ahn Young-joonA man watches a TV news program showing a file footage of North Korea's rocket launch at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 28, 2016.
A man watches a TV news program showing a file footage of North Korea's rocket launch at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 28, 2016. - Sputnik International
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North Korea carried out a second missile launch on Thursday, which most likely failure to accomplish its goal, South Korean media reported.

A man watches a TV screen showing a file footage of the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 18, 2016 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, an anonymous South Korean military official said that Pyongyang had fired a midrange ballistic missile, Musudan, on Thursday afternoon, but it is most likely to have failed the test it was set. The source added that South Korea and the United States were conducting a detailed assessment of the incident.

According to the Chosun news portal, the second launch was carried out less than an hour after the first missile was fired.

In mid-April, South Korean media reported that North Korea had allegedly deployed one or two Musudan missiles from a location on its eastern coast. Shortly afterwards, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the North appeared to have tried another missile test, which had ended in failure.

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