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Anonymous ID: 82eb52 July 30, 2019, 8:50 p.m. No.7270360   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0400

N. Korea fires 2 short-range ballistic missiles

 

SEOUL (Kyodo) – North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast toward the Sea of Japan on Wednesday morning, less than a week after it tested similar missiles, South Korea's military said.

 

Wednesday's missiles were fired from the Kalma area of Wonsan in the eastern part of the North at 5:06 a.m. and 5:27 a.m. and flew about 250 kilometers while reaching an altitude of about 30 km, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

 

The JCS added that South Korea is working with the United States to analyze the missiles, while preparing for possible additional launches.

 

The projectiles fell into the sea before reaching Japan's exclusive economic zone or territorial waters, the Japanese Defense Ministry said.

 

In Tokyo, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the Japanese government has confirmed that the missile firings have not affected the country's security.

 

"We will continue to closely cooperate with the United States and others," Abe told reporters at the prime minister's office.

 

North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles from the same area last Thursday. The missiles, which South Korea assessed as having flown about 600 km before falling into the Sea of Japan, were characterized by North Korea as a warning to the South against holding a joint military exercise with the United States next month.

 

The joint exercise is scheduled to be held from Aug. 5 to 20, according to South Korean media. With Seoul appearing ready to go ahead with the exercise, the latest missile launches could be seen as a further North Korean response to it.

 

Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Wednesday morning if the projectiles were ballistic missiles, it would amount to a breach of U.N. Security Council resolutions that ban North Korea from using ballistic missile technology. The launch was "extremely regrettable," he told reporters in the central Japan city of Nagoya.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190731/p2g/00m/0in/009000c