(Seoul) North Korea fired an “unidentified projectile,” the South Korean army announced late Monday, a few hours after Pyongyang informed Japan that it was preparing to launch a new satellite. spy.
“North Korea fired an unidentified projectile southward” over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, after Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo concluded their first summit trilateral since 2019.
“Numerous projectile fragments” were found in the ocean after the launch, said the South Korean military, which is trying to determine whether Pyongyang’s attempt failed.
About two minutes after detecting “what is suspected to be the North’s military reconnaissance satellite […] numerous fragments of the projectile were detected around 10:46 p.m. (9:46 a.m. Eastern Time) in North Korean waters. The United States and South Korea are analyzing whether it made an operational flight,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said.