U.S. Strategic Command tracks North Korean missile launch into space

The missile was detected at 6:29 p.m. CST (8.29 p.m. ET) and was tracked on a southerly launch over the Yellow Sea, it said in a statement.

"NORAD determined that at no time was the missile a threat to North America," the statement said, referring to the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

(Reporting by Paul Simao; Editing by James Dalgleish)