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 portfolio announced that the projectile had flown over the Japanese archipelago, although it later corrected itself, assuring that it had not been so.
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. .
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.
