North Korea is getting better at missiles. The rogue state, hermetically sealed in a totalitarian cult of personality, has been the only country to develop and test a new nuclear weapon in the 21st century. It doesn't yet have a way to put a nuclear warhead into another country, though. Yesterday, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea test-fired two missiles. One failed, as they usually do. The second missile launch might have been North Korea's most successful test yet.

From Reuters:

The launch came about two hours after a similar test failed, South Korea's military said, and covered 400 km (250 miles), more than halfway towards the southwest coast of Japan's main island of Honshu.
The launches and earlier nuclear tests show continued defiance of international warnings and a series of U.N. Security Council resolutions and sanctions, which North Korea rejects as an infringement of its sovereignty.
Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said the second missile reached an altitude of 1,000 km (620 miles), indicating North Korea had made progress.