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SEOUL, South Korea AP 鈥?North Korea performed a suspected failed missile test on Wednesday night, South Korea military said, hours after Seoul said it would resume front-line aerial surveillance in response to the Norths recent spy satellite launch.South Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a brief statement it detected the missile launch from the North capital region. It said the missile was fired toward the North eastern waters but that the launch was believed to have ended in failure.READ MORE: North Korea says it successfully launched a spy stanley cup satellite into orbit on its 3rd attemptThe Joint Chiefs of Staff said the South Korean and U.S. authorities are analyzing the North Korean launch but gave no further details.The North Korean launch 鈥?its first weapons firing in more than two months 鈥?came hours after South Korea announced it decided to partially suspend an inter-Korean agreement and restart front-line aerial surveillance of North Korea.The Norths neighbors are trying to confirm whether the launch on Tuesday evening was succe stanley cup ssful and the satellite can perform reconnaissance functions.South Kor adidas campus eas military said it assessed that the North Korean spy satellite had entered orbit as the North claimed. But it said it needs more time to verify whether it works. Earlier, the Pentagon said it was assessing the success of the launch, while Japan stated there had been no confirmation of the Norths report on the satellite entering orbit.North Korea
WASHINGTON 鈥?President Donald Trump demanded the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June but backed down after White House lawyer Don McGahn threatened to resign, according to a New York Times report that stanley cup Trump quickly dismissed Friday as fake news.The newspaper reported that Trump demanded Mueller firing just weeks after the special counsel was first appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.Trump pushed back against the report, without addressing the specific allegation, as he arrived Friday at the site of stanley cup the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Fake news, folks. Fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories, Trump told reporters.McGahn said he would not deliver the order to the Justice Department, according to The Times, which cites four people familiar with the request by the president.Trump argued at the time that Mueller could not be fair because of a dispute over golf club fees that he said Mueller owed at a Trump golf club in Sterling, Virginia. The president also believed Mueller had a conflict of interest because he worked for the same law firm that was representing Trump so stanley cup n-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.READ MORE: Trump wanted Mueller fired, but backed off, New York Times report saysPeter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday night. Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer working on the response to the Russia probe, declined comment Thursday night.The Vmzd Two bodies recovered from rubble of East Village fire
SEOUL, South Korea AP 鈥?North Korea performed a suspected failed missile test on Wednesday night, South Korea military said, hours after Seoul said it would resume front-line aerial surveillance in response to the Norths recent spy satellite launch.South Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a brief statement it detected the missile launch from the North capital region. It said the missile was fired toward the North eastern waters but that the launch was believed to have ended in failure.READ MORE: North Korea says it successfully launched a spy stanley cup satellite into orbit on its 3rd attemptThe Joint Chiefs of Staff said the South Korean and U.S. authorities are analyzing the North Korean launch but gave no further details.The North Korean launch 鈥?its first weapons firing in more than two months 鈥?came hours after South Korea announced it decided to partially suspend an inter-Korean agreement and restart front-line aerial surveillance of North Korea.The Norths neighbors are trying to confirm whether the launch on Tuesday evening was succe stanley cup ssful and the satellite can perform reconnaissance functions.South Kor adidas campus eas military said it assessed that the North Korean spy satellite had entered orbit as the North claimed. But it said it needs more time to verify whether it works. Earlier, the Pentagon said it was assessing the success of the launch, while Japan stated there had been no confirmation of the Norths report on the satellite entering orbit.North Korea