North Korea: On Thursday, hours before South Korea’s president was scheduled to fly to Tokyo for a summit where it was anticipated that strategies to deal with the nuclear-armed North would be discussed, North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan. This week has seen a number of missile launches from North Korea amid ongoing joint US-South Korean military exercises, which Pyongyang regards as hostile activities.
The Missile’s Flight Path
The missile was launched from Pyongyang at 7:10 a.m. and travelled around 1,000 kilometres on a lofted trajectory, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of South Korea. The intercontinental ballistic missile-type (ICBM) projectile looked to have flown over 6,000 km for around 70 minutes, according to Japan’s defence ministry. According to the government, it most likely touched down 200 kilometres west of Oshima-Oshima Island in Hokkaido, outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zones.
South Korea and Japan Condemn North Korea’s Missile Launch
A national security council meeting was called by South Korea, which “strongly condemned” the missile launch as a serious act of provocation endangering world peace. Yoon Suk Yeol, president of South Korea, gave the order to carry with planned military exercises with the US, stressing that North Korea would pay for its “reckless provocations,” according to his office. Fumio Kishida, the prime minister of Japan, announced that the country would also assemble its national security council to discuss the launch.
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Calls for Maintaining Peace and Stability in the Region Amid North Korea’s Provocations
Maintaining regional peace and stability, in Kishida’s opinion, is the most important problem for relevant nations. The United States believes that allies and friendly nations should cooperate more closely. In an effort to reconcile long-standing political, economic, and historical divisions in order to collaborate more successfully to address North Korea and other issues, Yoon is travelling to Japan for the first meeting of this kind with Kishida in over ten years. As part of the steps, the two American partners agreed to exchange real-time tracking of North Korean missile launches in order to further strengthen their military cooperation.
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