North Korea’s fourth missile test
Seoul … News Time
North Korea conducted another missile test in defiance of US sanctions. According to news agencies, Pyongyang in its statement on Friday called the new US sanctions provocative and threatened a strong response. According to media reports, Korea and Japan are deeply concerned about the successive missile tests and have described the incidents as a threat to peace and national security in the region. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles east of North Pyongyang Province near the Chinese border on North Korea’s west coast. Japan’s coast guard also reported that North Korea had conducted a test, possibly a ballistic missile. A Japanese defense ministry official says the missiles apparently fell into the sea outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. Hirokazu Matsuno, a member of the Japanese cabinet, said in a statement that North Korea’s actions and repeated ballistic missile tests were a threat to the security of our nation and the region. The U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement that the experiments did not pose an immediate threat to the United States or its allies.
