Tokyo wants Pyongyang to stop using Japanese airspace as a convenient test range for ballistic missiles.
At the same time, the government had relegated him to operating from an isolated U.S. missile-test range in the Pacific.
Monday's test at an Israeli test range over the Mediterranean had nothing to do with growing regional tension, a defence official said.
Only last month, it fired one in the Gulf of Mexico towards a test range at the Eglin US Air Force Base in western Florida.
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In May, the firm knocked out a number of UAVs at the US Navy test range on San Nicolas Island off the coast of California.
Importantly, the feasibility of U.S. hit-to-kill missile defense technology has just been demonstrated once again by the Patriot PAC-3 anti-missile system in a test on Monday at the White Sands test range.
As it relates to what you said a minute ago, I think if you look back at where people predicted different efforts would be, remember, right after the North Koreans test-fired their long-range -- test-fired a long-range missile, it was widely presumed that there was nothing that could be done to address those actions, largely because the U.N.
He might test a range of incentives on food servers to determine how best to motivate customer drink orders without driving the servers to be overly pushy, or evaluate which of several potential incentives might make first-time visitors down on their luck more likely to return.
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Being on the terror list did not stop North Korea from its first nuclear test, in 2006, or from a long-range missile test that same year.
One analyst told the BBC the military might ultimately wish to equip soldiers with a range of these pencils to provide a portable test kit for a range of harmful gases.
Any upside movement could meet with a test in the range of 1.2250 to 1.2275.
The launch was widely seen as a move to test long-range missile technology.
Foreign officials said there were no indications that a satellite had reached space and that the launch was a cover for Pyongyang to test long-range missile technology.
Pyongyang's announcement came just two weeks after it promised the U.S. it wouldn't test long-range missiles, a deal that had raised hopes for progress on North Korean disarmament.
North Korea on Feb. 29 said it wouldn't test long-range missiles as part of an agreement with the U.S., but that pact said nothing about other types of rockets.
North Korea's nuclear programme will top the agenda of talks here and there's been quite a bit of tension between the two Koreas recently, especially amidst reports that Pyongyang is preparing to test a long range missile.
Many outside the country saw the launch as an illegal test of long-range missile technology.
But just days after the proposed deal, the North announced and eventually executed a long-range missile test.
The North's launch was seen as a cover for a long-range missile test, and prompted UN sanctions.
North Korea, meanwhile, is believed to be preparing to test a long-range ballistic missile that could reach the United States.
The US, Japan and South Korea say the launch was a test of long-range missile technology banned by UN resolutions.
The UN Security Council condemned the launch, which many outside the country saw as an illegal test of long-range missile technology.
But the US and other nations say the launch constituted a disguised test of long-range missile technology banned under UN resolutions.
Most recently, the importance of America's alliance with Japan has been underlined by North Korea's preparations to test a long-range missile.
Military and intelligence officials in Seoul and Washington have been watching for signs that North Korea might soon test another long-range missile.
Its adversaries widely believe the launch is to test a long-range missile.
Targeting just one chemical inside cancerous cells could one day lead to a single test for a broad range of cancers, researchers say.
Last month, North Korea's National Defense Commission said the United States was its prime target for a nuclear test and long-range rocket launches.
And a U.S. decision to postpone a long-range missile test this month could provide a pretext for the North to declare a symbolic victory.
The start of presidential campaigning in South Korea comes amid reports that North Korea could carry out a long-range missile test in coming weeks.
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