May 27. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Japanese authorities have reported that North Korea notified them this Monday that it plans to launch a satellite-carrying rocket before Tuesday of the following week, June 4, which is why Tokyo has put the region on maximum alert. issuing a navigation warning and urging caution.
The notice designates three maritime areas where rocket debris is believed to fall, two in the Yellow Sea, west of the Korean Peninsula, and the third in the Philippine Sea, east of the Philippine island of Luzon, but all of them outside the Exclusive Economic Zone of Japan, as reported by the Japanese Coast Guard and reported by the Kiodo News news agency.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry has indicated that Japanese, American and South Korean officials, in reaction to the notification, will urge Pyongyang to cancel its plan because “any launch” using ballistic missile technology constitutes a violation of UN resolutions.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is in Seoul for the trilateral summit with China and South Korea, ordered relevant ministries and agencies on Monday to make maximum efforts to collect and analyze information on the possible launch of the satellite. .
Last week, the South Korean military said it had detected apparent signs that North Korea was preparing to launch a military spy satellite from its western coast, the Yonhap news agency reports.
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