U.S Scrubs Missile Test to Avoid Misperception

U.S Forces Korea has decided to stay in South Korea rather than coming to Washington to testify on Capitol Hill this week. Senior US military officials called the move by General James Thurman; "a prudent measure," made in consultation with South Korea and in light of recent tensions on the peninsula, while ratcheting down tensions with North Korea. The Pentagon recently decided to delay an intercontinental ballistic missile test that had been set for this week. While the Minuteman 3 test was "long planned and never associated with North Korea", a defense official told the Associated Press that "given recent tensions on the Korean peninsula, it's prudent and wise to take steps that avoid any misperception or chance of manipulation, so the test has been postponed".