China on Thursday test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in decades, with the rocket falling into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday.
China’s Rocket Force test-fired an ICBM into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday at 8.44 a.m. (0044GMT), carrying out the trial with a dummy warhead, according to the ministry.
The missile fell into a designated area in international waters, it added.
This was Beijing’s first known launch of an ICBM in 44 years, and it is estimated that the missile traveled some 12,000 kilometers (about 7,455 miles).
It came ahead of China’s national day on Oct. 1, when the world’s second-largest economy will celebrate its 75th anniversary.
