North Korea Fires Unidentified Missile Into The Sea

They flew approximately 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) into waters belonging to Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

The US military said it detected and tracked what it assessed was a North Korean missile launch, but added the launch did not pose a threat to North America.

The country’s propaganda paper added about Foal Eagle that the USA and South Korea would be “reduced to ashes by merciless retaliation”.

North Korea has fired a projectile into the Sea of Japan, which is also known as the East Sea, according to a South Korean Defense Ministry official.

It was not immediately clear what type of missiles were fired or the exact number, The Associated Press reported.

He also said at the start of the year, the country’s ICBM was almost ready to be launched, “anywhere, at any time”.

Last year, North Korea fired a long-range rocket from Tongchang-ri that put an object into orbit.

The move comes at a time of simmering tension over South Korea’s controversial THAAD missile system, which came a step closer to reality last week.

In the past eight months, Pyongyang has managed to launch three medium-range missiles successfully.

The missile launches invited strong condemnations.

Stocks in Tokyo and Seoul slumped and the yen strengthened on Monday (March 6) amid a report North Korea launched ballistic missiles, while investors also weighed messages from China’s National People’s Congress and Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen.

Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Yoshihide Suga said earlier in the day that North Korea test launched four ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.

Soon after ex-President Obama ordered the secret program three years ago, North Korean missiles began exploding, veering off course or crashing into the sea, the newspaper said Saturday. “It is also believed that it was an armed provocation to test the response from the new USA administration under President Trump”. But Pyongyang claims they are a preparation for a war against it.

South Korea’s ruling Liberty Korea Party said in a statement: “North Korea’s provocation can not be justified under any circumstances”.

North Korea’s missile launches coincided with massive joint military drills being carried out by the USA and South Korea on the Korean Peninsula.

The U.S. has considered an ICBM test by the North, if perfected, as a major threat to its homeland.

On February 3, North Korea accused the United States and South Korea of pushing the Korean peninsula to the “brink of nuclear war” with the deployment.

A middle-range North Korean missile, the Musudan, has a failure rate of 88 percent, the newspaper said.