North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile into the ocean off Japan’s west coast after warning of a powerful response to imminent army drills by South Korea and the United States.
Japanese authorities stated the missile plunged into waters on Saturday inside Japan’s unique financial zone (EEZ), greater than an hour after it was launched, suggesting the weapon was one in all Pyongyang’s largest missiles.
“North Korea fires an unidentified ballistic missile into [the] East Sea,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff stated, referring to the physique of water often known as the Sea of Japan.
Denouncing the launch as a “clear breach of UN Security Council resolutions”, the joint chiefs of workers stated the missile had flown about 900km (560 miles) earlier than splashing into the ocean.
Japanese authorities spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno informed reporters that North Korea fired an “ICBM-class ballistic missile” to the east, referring to long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles that Pyongyang has more and more examined.
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