Japan says North Korean-launched ballistic missile is still flying

The Japanese Ministry of Defense, quoted by local media, said today that the ballistic missile just launched by North Korea It is still in the air and could fall into the waters of the Japanese Special Economic Zone (SEZ), about 210 kilometers west of the northern island of Hokkaido, at around 11:20 local time (2:20 GMT).

Around 10:00 local time (1:00 GMT) both Tokyo and Seoul detected the eastward launch of an apparently ballistic missile.

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The South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted an anonymous military source as saying that preliminary analyzes indicate that it would be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the same type of North Korean projectile that already flew over the Japanese archipelago on 24 September. March.

Source: Elcomercio

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