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US forces carried out a successful test today of a missile-interception system. Military officials said, the test of the THAAD system, which the United States wants to set up in South Korea, came two days after North Korea’s second test of an ICBM. The US Missile Defense Agency said, in the American test, 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