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Asian Market Update — Wednesday: Bitcoin Remains Stable after Big Jump the Previous Day over North Korea Missile Test

Bitcoin prices remained stable overnight during the Asian trading session, after the cryptocurrency saw one of the biggest jumps in weeks, as investors appears to have been spooked by the latest North Korea missile test and turn to bitcoin.

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On Wednesday, North Korea also threatened to strike the Pacific U.S. territory of Guam by test - firing ballistic missiles into the waters surrounding the island.

Graham's statement came just days after North Korea tested another intercontinental ballistic missile which experts believe could have the range to hit most of the United States, with the exception of Florida.

This is now the ninth sanctions package that the UN security council has approved since 2006 for North Korea's missile tests.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intermediate - range ballistic missile Pukguksong - 2's launch test in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency, May 22, 2017.

North Korea has repeatedly defied international sanctions and warnings not to continue ballistic missile launches and tests of nuclear weapons.

North Korea's reported progress on miniaturizing nuclear warheads — coupled with two test flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles in July — are raising pressure on Trump.

Urgency over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions have escalated recently with United States seeing indications that North Korea may be preparing for a new missile test - launch soon, U.S.officials said last week before President Donald Trump's inauguration.

Carlin instead suggested North Korea was trying to make the US uncomfortable, as the US does to North Korea by flying strategic bombers nearby after a missile test.

Joe Bermudez, an analyst at 38 North, pointed out that North Korea's Hwasong - 12, the missile it mentioned in the statement, has only been tested four times, and only succeeded once.

North Korea is likely to continue pursuing ballistic missile tests at its current pace of about every three to four weeks despite the sanctions, according to John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School.

It has urged North Korea to halt future ballistic missile and nuclear tests, while also calling on the U.S. and South Korea to cease military exercises.

North Korea had already made some concessions ahead of the summit, including a declaration that it would stop missile and nuclear tests and drop its previous demands for US troops to withdraw from the peninsula.

In addition to firing at least 23 missiles in 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in September.

North Korea's missile tests added to tensions in a region plagued by disputes over the South China Sea and the China - India border.

It's therefore logical to assume that for the sake of its own security, North Korea will not risk escalating beyond the point of sporadic missile and nuclear tests.

Before Sunday's launch, an intermediate - range missile called Musudan was thought to have the longest potential range among the missiles that North Korea had test - fired — about 2,180 miles.

A reliable missile must endure at least 10 successful test launches, according to professor Chae Yeon - seok at South Korea's University of Science & Technology.

In recent years, North Korea successfully put satellites into orbit twice aboard long - range rockets in what the UN called a disguised test of long - range missile technology.

Although North Korea likes to brag about their successful missile launches and nuclear tests, they still need more time to complete their program.

Though outside experts see several places where North Korea is most likely stretching the truth, the missile launched Sunday appears to be the most powerful the country has ever tested.

When North Korea tested its intercontinental Hwasong - 14 missile on July 4, the US was aware 70 minutes ahead of time, according to the Diplomat.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP)-- North Korea's latest ballistic missile test may be nearly as big a deal as its propaganda machine claims.

North Korea hasn't tested a missile in over a month, its longest pause since it began launching missiles in February.

Tillerson's remarks came two weeks after North Korea conducted a test with a missile that could potentially carry a nuclear warhead to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

North Korea has received a lot of focus due to a recent missile test and the expectation of another nuclear test.

Also, no missile testing by North Korea during this period of time.

Basically, North Korea has to keep testing its missiles to achieve a credible nuclear threat to the US, but to do so it has to test missiles that fly beyond its borders.

South Korea's intelligence service on Thursday warned that it saw «active movement» at North Korea's missile research facility and that the world should expect more nuclear and missile testing from Pyongyang, according to Yonhap News.

North Korea successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that can be mounted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile on Sunday, marking its sixth — and biggest — test since 2006.

North Korea declared on Sunday it can test - launch an intercontinental ballistic missile at any time from any location.

Since the Winter Olympics earlier this year in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and sweeping rounds of US - led sanctions after North Korean nuclear and missile tests, Kim has also apparently opened up to diplomacy.

Tensions in the region have been high since January when North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test and then followed that with a satellite launch and test launches of various missiles.

And while it remains to be seen whether the unprecedented summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will actually take place, it is clear that North Korea, the only nation to have tested nuclear weapons this century, has been very busy perfecting its missile arsenal.

Kim has «committed to denuclearisation» and to suspending nuclear and missile tests, South Korea's...

An official traveling with U.S. President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia said the White House was aware of the launch and noted that the missile had a shorter range than the three previous tested by North Korea.

The missile flew further than any other so far, reports CNBC's Chery Kang on North Korea's latest missile tests.

The results are in from North Korea's latest missile test, and it looks as if the country's weapons program is advancing despite the US's best efforts.

May 28, 2017: Kim unveils a new short - range Scud - class ballistic missile ahead of North Korea's ninth test of the year.

And will North Korea continue the development and testing of missiles and nuclear weapons?

Nov. 28, 2017: North Korea unveils its largest and most powerful rocket in its third intercontinental ballistic missile test.

Isaac Stone Fish, senior fellow at the Asia Society's Center on U.S. - China Relations, told CNBC via e-mail that the U.S. travel ban «comes as the Trump administration is looking for other ways to punish Pyongyang for the death of Warmbier and North Korea's frequent missile tests throughout 2017.»

North Korea has tested intercontinental ballistic missiles before, but researchers found them prohibitively small for delivering a heavy nuclear device halfway around the world to the continental US.

It has been angered by Pyongyang's repeated nuclear and missile tests and signed on to increasingly tough U.N. sanctions, but it has said it believes such steps are not the ultimate answer and called for a return to talks with North Korea.

Tension between North Korea and the United States has been building after a series of nuclear and missile tests by Pyongyang and bellicose verbal exchanges between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.

Here's a timeline of North Korea's brazen missile tests during President Donald Trump's first year in office.

Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has conducted its most powerful nuclear test and launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile.

South Korea's responding missile tests included one with a 1,000 - kilometer (620 - mile) range, to mimic striking the North Korea launch site, which is not far from the & North Korean capital.