The missile could have been one of North Korea’s powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles with the capability of reaching the U.S. mainland, according to Japanese officials.
SEOUL — North Korea on Saturday fired a long-range missile into the sea, a day after Pyongyang threatened military action against South Korea and the United States over the allies’ joint military drills.Japanese officials suggested that the missile could have been one of North Korea’s powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles with the capability of reaching the U.S. mainland, given that it flew for more than an hour before it landed in waters inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
North Korea launched the missile around 5:22 p.m. local time from the Sunan area of its capital Pyongyang, where the country’s main international airport is located, according to the South Korean military. It flew 900 kilometers for 66 minutes, and reached an altitude of 5,700 kilometers, before falling about 200 kilometers west of Oshima Island in Hokkaido, in northern Japan, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
Defense officials from Seoul and Washington will gather at the Pentagon on Wednesday for a tabletop exercise focusing on specific scenarios of nuclear attacks from North Korea. The two countries are also planning field exercises next month that will be upscaled from those of previous years, Seoul’s defense ministry said.The allies say the drills are defensive in nature, but North Korea views them as “rehearsals for invasion” and typically reacts angrily.
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