Oct. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The North Korean Army has launched this Thursday, early Friday already in Pyongyang, an unspecified ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan – known as the East Sea in South Korea -, according to South Korean military sources.
This has been confirmed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea, although it has not delved into more details, as reported by the South Korean news agency Yonhap. Japanese media indicate that the launch has been recorded around 2:00 am (local time) and that both Seoul and the United States are already collecting information about what happened.
This launch occurred just one day after the North Korean leader himself, Kim Jong Un, supervised the deployment of two long-range ballistic missiles, which have flown over the waters of the Sea of Japan to finally hit the target, 2,000 kilometers away, according to the North Korean news agency KCNA.
In recent weeks, North Korea has launched several ballistic missiles in tests prohibited by UN Security Council resolutions, in response to US-Korean military exercises it considers an invasion test.
In the early hours of October 4, Pyongyang launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile that flew over Japanese territory to fall into the Pacific Ocean, outside Japanese airspace, an event that had not happened since 2017.
