North Korea Reportedly Launches ‘Unspecified Ballistic Missile’
A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on November 3, 2022
Since the start of 2022, North Korea has conducted over 30 missile test launches. Pyongyang has said North Korea’s military-related activities come in response to provocations by South Korea and its allies.On Wednesday, North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile, according to the South Korean military.”North Korea fires an unspecified ballistic missile towards East Sea,” Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.A missile launched by North Korea on Wednesday fell outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan, Japanese media reported.According to media reports, the crisis Headquarters at the Office of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is currently collecting and analyzing information about this latest North Korean missile launch.Japan has expressed a protest to North Korea through diplomatic channels in Beijing in connection with Pyongyang’s missile launch, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday.”North Korea has fired, presumably, a ballistic missile. Currently there is no information about any damage. North Korea’s actions, including constant missile launches, threaten the peace and stability of our country, the region and the world community, and therefore are unacceptable. We protested to North Korea through diplomatic channels in Beijing,” Matsuno told a briefing.Pyongyang has been actively launching ballistic missiles since the end of September. One of them was a medium-range ballistic missile of the Hwasong-12 type, which passed over Japan, breaking a record for North Korea of 4,500km, flying at an altitude of 1000 meters. An air alert was declared in Japan. Also in early November, North Korea launched missiles, one of which is thought to have been intercontinental. In total, the DPRK has conducted 30 missile launches since the beginning of the year. The country says its military activity is a response to South Korea’s “provocations.”
