North Korea fails in new missile test: Seoul

A new North Korean missile test failed on Wednesday, the South and US said, two weeks after Pyongyang launched 4 rockets in what it called a drill for an attack on American bases in Japan. The North is under several sets of UN sanctions over its atomic missile programmes. It is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the US with an atomic warhead and staged 2 nuclear tests and multiple missile launches last year.