South Korean military officials say North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the ocean off its eastern coast, the latest in a series of missile tests.
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A missile launched by North Korea early on Wednesday that landed in or near Japanese waters shows North Korea’s “ambition to attack neighbouring countries”, an official at South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff of said. “This is an outrageous act that can not be tolerated”.
These provocations only serve to increase the worldwide community’s resolve to counter the North Korean prohibited activities, including through implementing existing UN Security Council sanctions.
The U.S. military said it detected two simultaneous missile launches, one was successful and the other exploded immediately after launch.
United Nations resolutions prohibit North Korea from developing ballistic missile technology.
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said the missile landed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan. From the perspective of the safety of aircraft and ships, it is an extremely problematic, risky act.
The Rodong is a scaled-up Scud variant with a maximum range of around 1,300 kilometres.
To better defend against North Korea’s increasing missile capabilities, Washington and Seoul plan to deploy an advanced missile defense shield in South Korea.
“The ultimate objective of Japan is to cook (up) excuses for adjusting by leaps and bounds its military and security policies and accelerating its arms expansion, even rewriting the pacifist constitution”, the statement said, referring to legislation passed a year ago that loosened post-World War II constraints on the Japanese military.
She is Tomomi Inada, a conservative who supports revising Japan’s pacifist constitution and who makes a habit of visiting the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a memorial to Japan’s war dead that China and South Korea contend honors war criminals.
– June 22: The U.S. and South Korea say North Korea fires two suspected Musudan missiles.
But it has carried out repeated launches in recent months.
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But North Korea is not yet believed to have the ability to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile to make a deliverable weapon.
