<span style="color: #222222;">North Korea has conducted its biggest missile launch since 2017. South Korea reported that the launch took place at 07:52 local time today off North Korea's east coast. Japan, South Korea and the US have all condemned the launch, the seventh test this month.<br />''<br />''The UN prohibits North Korea from ballistic and nuclear weapons tests and has imposed strict sanctions. The United States called on North Korea to "refrain from further destabilising acts", in a statement issued by the US military's Indo-Pacific Command.<br />''<br />''But the East Asian state regularly defies the ban, and leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to bolster his country's defences.<br />''<br />''South Korea's National Security Council said Sunday's test was an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), which would be the biggest missile tested since November 2017.<br />''<br />''Japanese and South Korean officials estimated that the missile reached an altitude of 2,000km and flew for 30 minutes to a distance of 800km.   Finally,  it landed in the Sea of Japan.</span><br />