Pyongyang fires a medium-range ballistic missile that has missed
The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and the United States describe the launches as “a serious challenge”
North Korea launched a medium-range ballistic missile and two short-range projectiles into the Sea of ??Japan this morning, triggering air alerts in several prefectures in the north of the Japanese island of Honshu, according to Japanese authorities. .
The Japanese Ministry of Defense has revealed that North Korea has launched a medium-range missile around 7:42 local time (23:42 Spanish peninsular time) that has fallen into the Sea of ??Japan, according to NHK.
At first, the defense ministry announced that the projectile had flown over the Japanese archipelago, although it later corrected itself by assuring that it had not been the case in the end because the missile had failed and would have fallen somewhere in the Sea of ??Japan after having flown 1,920 kilometers.
However, after the launch of the missile, the Government has sent instant alerts to the citizens of the prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata, all in the north of Honshu, the main island of the Japanese archipelago.
However, two other short-range missiles have been detected by the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, which has detailed that they have been fired at 08:39 a.m. (00:39 a.m. Spanish peninsular time) from the North Korean town of Kaechon, south of Pyongyang. .
Senior officials from Japan, South Korea and the United States have called North Korea’s missile launches “a clear and serious challenge to the international community.”
In response to the three missiles fired this Thursday, the director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Takehiro Funakoshi, has spoken with the special representative of the United States Department of State for North Korea, Sung Kim, and with the director general of the South Korean Foreign Ministry Kim Gunn has reported NHK.
The three representatives have maintained that “the series of ballistic missile launches” on Tuesday and Wednesday are provocations of an “unprecedented” frequency and manner, and that they represent “a serious and imminent threat to the security of the region, including Japan.” and South Korea.”
They have also agreed to “further” promote security cooperation between their countries, reaffirming that they will continue to work closely together to strengthen the implementation of sanctions and responses in the UN Security Council.
These launches take place a day after North Korea launched almost twenty missiles into the Sea of ??Japan, one of which flew over the maritime demarcation line between the two Koreas for the first time since the war between the two countries, blowing up anti-aircraft sirens on one of the South Korean islands.
In this context, on October 4 Pyongyang launched a ballistic missile that fell into the Pacific Ocean and flew over Japanese territory, an event that had not happened since 2017 and that activated the alert in Japan.
The offensive by Pyongyang further escalates tensions in the region, after North Korea has launched dozens of ballistic missiles in recent weeks in tests prohibited by UN Security Council resolutions, in response to military maneuvers. US-Koreans that it considers an invasion rehearsal.
Washington, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have shared evidence that North Korea is “likely” to carry out a nuclear missile test, the first since 2017.
