SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the ocean between the Korean peninsula and Japan, South Korea’s navy mentioned on Thursday, simply hours earlier than South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was attributable to fly to Tokyo for a uncommon summit.
North Korea has carried out close to every day missile launches this week amid ongoing joint South Korea-US navy drills that Pyongyang condemns as hostile actions.
In a press release on Thursday, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff mentioned the North had launched at the very least one unknown sort of ballistic missile off its east coast.
Yoon is headed to Japan for the primary such summit with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in additional than a decade, a part of an effort to beat historic, political and financial disputes within the title of higher cooperating to counter North Korea and different challenges.
As a part of the efforts, the 2 US allies have agreed to share real-time monitoring of North Korean missile launches, and have vowed to additional deepen navy cooperation. — Reuters
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