North Korea launches missile over Northern Japan

Suga also said that no damage had been reported as a result of the missile. Specifically he said that no potentially dangerous debris had fallen from the missile, confirming that no aircraft or ships in the region have been hit or damaged as a result

Arnima Dwivedi
Published on: 15 Sep 2017 3:32 AM GMT
North Korea launches missile over Northern Japan
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Seoul: North Korea launched a missile that flew over northern Japan before plunging into the Pacific Ocean, the South Korean military said on Friday.

According to South Korea's military Joint Chiefs of Staff, the still-unidentified missile was launched around 0630 hours (local time) from east of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.

The officials said that the rocket could have reached an altitude of 770 km and flew for a total of some 3,700 km. Japanese government's missile alert system showed that the missile overflew the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and fell into the Pacific Ocean.

Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters that the missile fell into the ocean some 2,000 km from the town of Erimo in eastern Hokkaido without being seen to do so by any ships or aircraft in that area.

Suga also said that no damage had been reported as a result of the missile. Specifically he said that no potentially dangerous debris had fallen from the missile, confirming that no aircraft or ships in the region have been hit or damaged as a result of the launch and missile's flight.

The South Korean President's Office immediately called a meeting of that country's National Security Council and troops of the Asian nation undertook a ballistic missile test in the Sea of Japan to the east of the Korean Peninsula in response to the launch.

This is the first missile launch by North Korea since the end of August, when the Kim Jong-un regime fired another projectile over northern Japan, and the first weapons test since Pyongyang carried out its sixth, and to date most powerful, nuclear test on September 3.

Arnima Dwivedi

Arnima Dwivedi

A journalist, presently working as a sub-editor with newstrack.com. I love exploring new genres of humans and humanity.

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