North Korea: On Thursday morning, North Korea once again fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The South Korean army has given this information. South Korea's military said the ballistic missile was launched from Pyongyang at 7:10 a.m. local time and flew toward the eastern seaboard of the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea: On Thursday morning, North Korea once again fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The South Korean army has given this information.
South Korea’s military said the ballistic missile was launched from Pyongyang at 7:10 a.m. local time and flew toward the eastern seaboard of the Korean Peninsula.
At the same time, the Japanese Ministry of Defense said that the missile fell 250 km away from the island of Japan. Before that it flew for about 1,000 km at an altitude of more than 6,000 km for about 70 minutes.
In a statement on Thursday, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North had launched at least one unknown type of ballistic missile off its east coast. North Korea has conducted multiple missile launches this week amid ongoing joint South Korea-US military drills that Pyongyang condemns as hostile actions.
South Korea’s military said the missile launch was against UN resolutions. Also warned that North Korea will have to pay the price for this provocation. South Korea has also called for stronger security cooperation with Japan and the US.
According to media reports, Japan and South Korea may demand a meeting of the UN Security Council after the missile test. North Korea has fired missiles several times amid ongoing military exercises between South Korea and the US. At the same time, Pyongyang has condemned this military exercise. South Korea convened a National Security Council meeting and “strongly condemned” the missile launch as a serious act of provocation threatening international peace.
Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korean President ordered his country’s military to hold exercises with the United States as planned, saying North Korea would pay for the “reckless provocation”, according to his office.Fumio Kishida, Japanese Prime Minister said that Japan would also hold a meeting of the National Security Council at the launch.
“Regional peace and stability is the most important issue for the countries concerned,” Kishida told reporters. “We need to forge closer cooperation with all allies and friendly nations.”Yoon is traveling to Japan for the first such summit with Kishida in more than a decade in an effort to iron out historical, political and economic disputes in the name of better cooperation to counter North Korea and other challenges. .
Let us inform, South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol is going on a tour of Japan. He will attend a summit in Tokyo. Apart from this, we will discuss better cooperation to counter North Korea and other challenges. As part of the efforts, the two US allies have agreed to real-time tracking of North Korea’s missile launches, and vowed to deepen military cooperation.
