Missile defence test a success

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The straits times
WASHINGTON - THE US military said on Friday it had carried out a successful test of its missile defence system off Hawaii's coast, as Washington keeps a close eye on North Korea's missile programme.

In the test carried out late on Thursday, an interceptor missile from a naval destroyer, the USS Hopper, shot down a short-range ballistic missile, the Missile Defence Agency said in a statement.

The destroyer's Aegis weapon system 'successfully guided the SM-3 (interceptor) to a direct body-to-body hit, approximately two minutes after leaving the ship', the agency said.

'The intercept occurred about 100 miles (161km) above the Pacific Ocean,' it said.

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