SEOUL: North Korea apparently failed with an attempted missile launch on Tuesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for a ballistic weapons program that aspires to threaten the US mainland.

South Korea’s defense ministry detected the dawn launch effort, which Japan condemned as an unacceptable and “provocative” act.

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