North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Saturday that appears to have landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said.
“It appears that the ballistic missile fired by North Korea landed inside Japan’s EEZ west of Hokkaido,” Kishida told reporters.
Japanese Vice Defense Minister Toshiro Ino had previously said the missile was supposed to have landed about 200 kilometers west of Oshima Island, off the northern island of Hokkaido, at around 18:27 in Japan (09 :27 27 TMG and in Lisbon).
Kishida is said to have “gave instructions [a oficiais japoneses] to inform the public and thoroughly check the security situation”.
Last November, another missile fired by Pyongyang, in an unprecedented and intense series of launches, also landed in Japan’s EEZ.
Japan’s EEZ extends up to 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from its coast. Earlier, the South Korean military said in a statement that North Korea had launched an unidentified ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan (called the East Sea in both Koreas).
The Joint Chiefs of Staff did not provide further information on the launch, the second launched by Pyongyang this year.
At the sixth fair, North Korea was threatened with an “unprecedented” response against the military exercises planned for March by South Korea and the United States, which next week will also carry out a theoretical exercise simulating a nuclear attack by the Korean regime From North.
Pyongyang carried out a record number of missile launches last year, around 50, often in response to joint Seoul-Washington exercises and the deployment of strategic Pentagon assets on the peninsula.
Satellite photos also show that the nuclear test site at Punggye-ri in the northeast of the country has been fully rehabilitated for almost a year and is ready to host a new atomic test.
Source: TSF
