KCNA released picture on January 31 shows what North Korea says is the test-fire of Hwasong 12-type ground-to-ground intermediate- and long-range ballistic missile conducted under a plan of the Academy of Defence Science. KCNS/AFP/

KCNA released picture on January 31 shows what North Korea says is the test-fire of Hwasong 12-type ground-to-ground intermediate- and long-range ballistic missile conducted under a plan of the Academy of Defence Science. KCNS/AFP/

KCNA released picture on January 31 shows what North Korea says is the test-fire of Hwasong 12-type ground-to-ground intermediate- and long-range ballistic missile conducted under a plan of the Academy of Defence Science. KCNS/AFP/

KCNA released picture on January 31 shows what North Korea says is the test-fire of Hwasong 12-type ground-to-ground intermediate- and long-range ballistic missile conducted under a plan of the Academy of Defence Science. KCNS/AFP/

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, after North Korea fired a “suspected ballistic missile” in the country’s seventh weapons test. (AFP)