North Korea claims ICBM launch, bringing US and Darwin within range

By Kirsty Needham, Michael Koziol
Updated July 5 2017 - 8:08am, first published July 4 2017 - 7:18pm

Beijing: North Korea has claimed its first successful launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, defying a tweet by US President Donald Trump in January that "It won't happen!".