US test-fires ICBM traveling 4,000 miles to South Pacific

Amid high tension with North Korea, the US Air Force Wednesday test-fired an intercontinental Minuteman III ballistic missile which traveled over 4,000 miles (6,400km) before splashing down in the South Pacific. It was fired from Vandenberg Air Force base in California. The nuclear-capable missile was unarmed, according to the Air Force. 

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