North Korea launches a ballistic missile into the Sea of ​​Japan

North Korea carried out this Saturday the launch of what is believed to be a ballistic missile into the Sea of ​​​​Japan (called the East Sea in the two Koreas), the South Korean military reported.

“Our military detected a projectile believed to be a ballistic missile launched into the East Sea from the vicinity of Sunan at around 0848 (2348 GMT Friday)”reads the statement sent by the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) sent to journalists.

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Sunan is the district of Pyongyang which houses the city’s international airport and is the place from which the regime launched another ballistic missile a week ago.

In that earlier test, the regime claimed to have fired a test projectile as part of the development of a reconnaissance satellite.

With this launch, which comes four days before the South Korean elections, there are already nine, a record number, tests of this type carried out this year by the North Korean regime, which has said it is promoting the development of a series of weapons agreed upon in the single party congress in early 2021.

The Japanese government reported for its part that it also believes that what was launched today is a ballistic missile, just like last week, and that the projectile seems to have fallen outside the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

The presidential office in Seoul has called a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) to discuss the launch.

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Source: Elcomercio

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