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Russia sent to the UN Secretariat and the Security Council of the world organization of the data of the Ministry of defence conducted by the DPRK on missile test. The Russian military confirmed that it launched on Tuesday, the ballistic missile had an average range and was not Intercontinental, as claimed by Pyongyang and Washington.
“The fourth of July 2017 radar type “Voronezh”, located in the Irkutsk region, tracked the launch of a ballistic medium-range missiles of a class “And” Korean people’s Democratic Republic with the missile polygon, Concannon (100 km Northwest of Pyongyang), – TASS quoted the letter of the defense Ministry. – Flight time of the missile was about 14 minutes, the maximum altitude is 535 kilometers, has a range of 510 miles. Ballistic missile fell into the sea of Japan”.
Controversial type of missile launched by North Korea, was heard on Wednesday at an emergency meeting of the UN security Council. The position of the Russian side voiced by the Deputy permanent representative of the Russian Federation Vladimir Safronkov, caused outrage from the U.S. Ambassador to Nikki Haley. The American diplomat expressed readiness to provide the intelligence of the United States confirming that North Korea launched an Intercontinental ballistic missile.