North Korea continues to defy the United Nations and international sanctions banning it from building or testing any ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear payload. Over the weekend, the North Koreans fired 4 more ballistic missiles towards Northern Japan.
Three of them fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) after flying some 1,000km (620 miles), in what PM Shinzo Abe called a “new stage of threat”.
They were fired from the Tongchang-ri region, near the North’s border with China, the South Korean military said.
The type of missile in unclear but the North is banned from any missile or nuclear tests by the UN.
A South Korean military official said a launch had taken place at 07:36 local time Monday (22:36 GMT Sunday) and was being investigated to determine the type of projectile used.
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