North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast as the U.S. and South Korea continued their joint military drills.
launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, testing activities that appear to be in response to ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills.
The chief nuclear envoys from South Korea, Japan and the U.S. strongly condemned the missile launch as a provocation threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula and in the region. They agreed in a phone call to strengthen their coordination to send a firm international response to the North's testing activity, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry.South Korea's military
According to Japanese Vice Defense Minister Toshiro Ino, the missile landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. He said there were no reports of damage to vessels or aircraft in the area and that the missile likely showed an irregular trajectory, a possible reference to North Korea’s highly maneuverable, nuclear-capable KN-23 missile.
In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers fly in formation with South Korea's Air Force F-35A fighter jets and U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets over the South Korea Peninsula during a joint air drill in South Korea, Sunday, March 19, 2023.North Korea recently tested weapons including its longest-range Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland.
North Korea has missiles that put Japan within striking distance. In October, North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over northern Japan forcing communities to issue evacuation alerts and stop trains.
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