North Korean missile flies over Japan and activates alert in several of the regions

North Korea today launched a new ballistic missile that flew over Japan and forced to activate the alerts asking the population to seek refuge in the prefectures of Niigata, Yamagata, both on the coast of the Sea of ​​​​Japan, and Miyagi (northeast), NHK public broadcaster reported.

The alert from the J-Alert system was issued around 7:46 a.m. local time (22:46 GMT) and the missile seems to have flown over Japan for a part before heading to the Pacific, where it has fallen according to sources from the Japanese Ministry of Defense cited by the Coast Guard.

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The launch, which has been confirmed by both the South Korean and Japanese military authorities, comes after Pyongyang fired around twenty missiles the day before, a record number for the regime in a single day, many of them ballistic missiles of short range (SLBM).

Source: EFE

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