Japan’s coast guard and the prime minister’s office said the North fired a suspected ballistic missile.
Seoul:
North Korea on Thursday fired an unspecified ballistic missile toward the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s military said, just days after Pyongyang’s failed attempt to launch a spy satellite.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff did not provide further details in its statement.
Japan’s coast guard and the prime minister’s office said the North fired a suspected ballistic missile, adding that they were gathering more information.
North Korea’s latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit ended in a mid-air explosion on Monday, Pyongyang said, after Seoul and Tokyo criticized the planned launch.
Japanese broadcaster NHK broadcast footage of what appeared to be a flaming projectile in the night sky that then exploded in a fireball, saying it filmed it in northeast China at the same time as the launch attempt.
Putting a reconnaissance satellite into orbit has been one of Kim Jong Un’s regime’s top priorities, and it claimed to have succeeded in November after two failed attempts last year.
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