(Seoul) North Korea launched an “unidentified projectile,” the South Korean army said on Tuesday, less than a week after Pyongyang claimed to have fired a hypersonic missile.
The projectile was fired into the sea east of the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, without providing further details.
The shooting was also reported by the Japanese Coast Guard, who spoke of an “object resembling a ballistic missile”.
Last week, six countries, including the United States and Japan, urged North Korea to stop its “destabilizing actions” ahead of a closed-door meeting of the United Nations Security Council over the shooting, a little earlier, of a hypersonic missile by Pyongyang.
In 2021, North Korea, equipped with nuclear weapons, claimed to have successfully tested a new type of sea-to-surface ballistic missile (SLBM), a long-range cruise missile, a piece of weaponry launched from a train and what she described as a hypersonic warhead.
Tuesday’s essay comes as Pyongyang refused to respond to US calls for talks.
At a meeting of the ruling party in the country, leader Kim Jong-un – behind the rapid advancement of the country’s military technology, at the cost of international sanctions – pledged to continue building military capacity, not to mention the United States.