North Korea conducted a missile test on Wednesday, as leaders of South Korea and Japan were set to meet on the sidelines of a NATO summit to discuss threats including the nuclear-armed North.
conducted a missile test with its longest-ever flight time off its east coast on Wednesday, as leaders of South Korea and Japan were set to meet on the sidelines of a NATO summit to discuss threats including the nuclear-armed North.
In April North Korea test fired its first ever solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile , one of around a dozen missile tests this year. It had earlier predicted the projectile would fall outside Japan’s EEZ and around 340 miles east of the Korean peninsula. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, in Lithuania to attend the NATO summit, convened an emergency national security council meeting to discuss the launch and vowed to use the summit to call for strong international solidarity to confront such threats.
“We will respond in close cooperation with the international community,” Matsuno told a news conference.He said the launch threatened the peace and stability both of the region and the international community, and that Japan had lodged a protest through diplomatic channels in Beijing.The United States’ top general met with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts for a rare trilateral meeting in Hawaii just before the missile launch.
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