SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the sea. The launch was the North’s first this year and comes two months after it claimed to have tested engines for a new harder-to-detect missile capable of striking distant U.S. targets in the region. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says it has detected a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile launch from the North’s capital region on Sunday afternoon. It said the missile flew toward the North’s eastern waters. Japan’s Defense Ministry also said it spotted a possible ballistic missile launch by North Korea.