US successfully tests missile-interceptor system amid threat from N Korea

The test of the so-called THAAD system came two days after North Korea's second test of an ICBM

American forces successfully tried out on Sunday a missile interception system the United Stataes (US) hopes to set up on the Korean peninsula, military officials said following a trial just days after North Korea's second test of an ICBM (Intercontinental ballistic missile).

In the American test of the so-called THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) system, a medium-range missile was launched from a US Air Force C-17 aircraft flying over the Pacific and a THAAD unit in Alaska "detected, tracked and intercepted the target," the US Missile Defense Agency said.

It said this was the 15th successful intercept in 15 tests for