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US, Japan and South Korea meet over North Korea’s missile launches
The backstory:
* A ballistic missile is a missile that travels well outside the atmosphere. From there, the warhead detaches and falls back to Earth. Sort of similar to the path of a ball thrown upwards which falls down after.
* Essentially, the United Nations Security Council has banned North Korea from