North Korea's ICBM Launch Raises Tensions Before Summit.

North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into its eastern waters, just hours before South Korea’s president was due to fly to Japan for the first summit between the two countries in years, with the situation in nuclear-armed North Korea a key concern. The launch is North Korea’s first of an ICBM in a month, but followed a series of missile launch events this week amid ongoing large-scale military drills between South Korea and the United States, which Pyongyang considers hostile and a rehearsal for invasion.