Bloomberg North Korea tried to deceive the world about the type of missile it fired last week, claiming that it successfully tested a “huge,” new ICBM while actually firing off a rocket first launched in 2017, South Korean defense officials said. The intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea launched last week was likely a Hwasong-15, which was successfully tested ...

  Bloomberg Hungary was forced to cancel a meeting of central European defense ministers after two of its closest allies in the European Union pulled out in response to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s limited support for Ukraine. Hungary was due to host the defense chiefs of the so-called Visegrad Group in Budapest for a two-day meeting starting Wednesday. The event ...

  Bloomberg Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was released from the hospital early Tuesday, less than 12 hours after being admitted due to abdominal discomfort. Local TV news network GloboNews showed images of a presidential convoy of cars leaving the hospital on Tuesday in Brasilia as part of its report of the discharge. While the government didn’t immediately provide additional details ...