Time.news – “North Korea has launched an alleged ballistic missile”. This was announced by the Japanese premier’s office on its official Twitter profile. The missile appears to have fallen into the sea outside Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The Coast Guard said it has not received any news of damage to Japanese ships at the moment, the broadcaster NHK said.
The launch was carried out after the joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea, which according to the Yonhap agency concluded on Saturday, and after the joint exercises between the United States, South Korea and Japan earlier in the week.
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North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile. More updates to follow.— PM’s Office of Japan (@JPN_PMO) October 8, 2022
A new threat for October 10th
The news of the launch comes after the possibility came out today that Pyong yang could have carried out new military tests, with another launch of missiles or with a nuclear experiment. A threat, still plausible, which should occur next 10 October, the day of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea. The Japanese public television NHK reported these suspicions, citing Japanese government sources.
North Korea has already carried out military tests around this anniversary in the past. In 2016, a missile was launched on 15 October and in 2006 the first North Korean nuclear test was carried out just around 10 October.
A “legitimate reaction” in the face of direct US military threats. North Korea thus defends its latest missile launch actions, considered “a serious threat to peace and security from the US, Japan and South Korea. “The missile launch test is a regular and planned self-defense measure to defend the country’s security and regional peace against direct US threats that have lasted for over half a century,” said the civil aviation agency. North Korea without specifying which launch it refers to, according to the state agency KCNA.