North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Thursday, but the launch appears to have failed, the South Korean military said.
“North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile likely resulted in failure,” the military said in a statement.
The United States has already condemned the launch and called for strict enforcement of UN sanctions against Pyongyang.
The launch “underscores the need for all countries to fully implement UN Security Council resolutions” to sanction North Korea, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
This Thursday, the launch of missiles over Japan, towards the Pacific, forced the Japanese government to issue warnings to the population of some regions to seek refuge or stay at home.
The missiles flew over Japan around 7:48 a.m. (10:48 p.m. Wednesday in Lisbon), the Japanese prime minister’s office explained through the social network Twitter.
Japanese authorities issued warnings to the population in the northern regions of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata, with no damage or injuries reported.
The launches came a day after North Korea fired more than 20 missiles, the most in a single day.
One such missile flew toward a populated South Korean island and landed near the tense maritime border of rival neighbors. Air-raid sirens forced residents of Ulleung Island to seek shelter.
South Korea responded quickly, launching missiles in the same area of the maritime border.
Wednesday’s launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to make the United States and South Korea “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest against ongoing South Korean and US military exercises, seen by the Kim Jong-un regime as a rehearsal for a possible invasion.
In October, Pyongyang fired a missile at Japan and described the exercise as a test of a new medium-range ballistic missile, a weapon that experts say could hit Guam, a key US military center in the Pacific.
This launch also forced, at the time, the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and halt rail traffic in some regions.
North Korea has been ramping up weapons demonstrations at a record pace this year, having fired dozens of missiles, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile demonstration since 2017, while taking advantage of an eventual distraction created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine to stimulate the development. weapons
Technically, the two Koreas are still at war, as the 1950-53 conflict ended with the signing of an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
Source: TSF
