The armies of South Korea and Japan has warned of the launch of a ballistic missile not specified by North Korea after Seoul warned on Friday that it had detected signs of preparations to test an intercontinental range projectile from the hermetic Asian country.
He Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) limited itself to reporting in a brief statement that the regime “has launched a ballistic missile not identified at East Sea (name given to sea of japan in the two Koreas)”, Meanwhile he Japanese Ministry of Defense He published another writing in which he warned that “a possibly ballistic missile has been launched by North Korea.”
Both messages were broadcast from Tokyo and Seoul simultaneously at 10:41 p.m. local time (13.41 GMT). In another message issued shortly after 11:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. GMT), the Japanese Ministry of Defense indicated that the projectile already appeared to have fallen into the water.
This North Korean launch, the twenty-sixth reported this year, comes two days later that the South Korean vice national security advisor, Kim Tae-hyosaid that signs had been detected that the regime of Kim Jong-un could throw a intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the coming days.
The last ICBM that Pyongyang tested was launched last julywhen he fired a projectile Hwasong-18 of solid fuel from the outskirts of the North Korean capital.
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However, when taking into account the flight durations on the trajectories commonly used by North Korea, the data shared by the Japanese Ministry of Defense They do not seem to correspond in principle with those of an ICBM missile.
This latest North Korean launch also occurs after Pyongyang announced on November 23 that it is canceling the implementation of a military treaty with Seoul signed in 2018 for reduce tension in the border areas in what represents another disagreement that contributes to worsening the environment on the peninsula.