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Detailed explanation-1: -North Korea’s 11th missile launch of 2022 was its March 24 launch of an ICBM, marking its first successful ICBM launch since 2017. According to Japanese Minister of Defense Nobuo Kishi, one or more missiles from North Korea’s June 5, 2022 launch had a variable trajectory presumably designed to evade missile defenses.

Detailed explanation-2: -North Korea tests its ICBMs on a lofted trajectory, meaning they are fired at a much higher than normal trajectory-nearly straight up-to avoid other countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -South Korean and Japanese officials say North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast.

Detailed explanation-4: -North Korea said it test fired its massive new Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in what analysts said may be the first successful launch of the system after doubts were raised about earlier claims.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first ICBMs were deployed by the Soviet Union in 1958; the United States followed the next year and China some 20 years later. The principal U.S. ICBM is the silo-launched Minuteman missile.