The long-range ballistic missile that North Korea fired on Thursday appears to be a new model, South Korea said, triggering a scare in northern Japan, where residents were told to take cover, though there turned out to be no danger.
People watch a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on April 13, 2023. North Korea fired a ballistic missile on April 13, Seoul's military said, prompting Japan to briefly issue a seek shelter warning to residents of the northern Hokkaido region. Jung Yeon-je/ AFPappears to be a new model, South Korea said, triggering a scare in northern Japan, where residents were told to take cover, though there turned out to be no danger.
"So far we assess that they fired a new type of ballistic missile with an intermediate or intercontinental range," the official said. "We're still analyzing details like the trajectory, altitude and range, with the possibility that it carried a solid-fuel propellant." While North Korea has tested short-range solid-fuel missiles, it has not tested a long-range missile of that type, said Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the US-based RAND Corporation.
It could have been launched from an international airport close to North Korea's capital, a major site for test-firing large missiles since 2017.The nuclear envoys of allies South Korea, the US and Japan spoke and condemned the launch, saying North Korea had constantly threatened regional peace with "unprecedented levels of provocations and menacing words," South Korea's foreign ministry said.
Authorities retracted the alert for Hokkaido island in northern Japan when they determined that the missile would not fall nearby.
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