“North Korea fired an unidentified projectile from the Sunan area at around 9:30 a.m., but it was presumed to have missed immediately after launch.”South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
Japanese media also noted that North Korea had launched a possible ballistic missile, citing an anonymous Defense Ministry source.
Japanese television NHK reported that senior government officials met in the prime minister’s office to discuss the situation.
It would be Pyongyang’s tenth weapons test so far this year, after the launch of seven missiles and two devices that North Korea described as “reconnaissance satellites.”
Seoul and Washington claimed last week that these tests were part of a new intercontinental ballistic missile system that had never been tested.
The country is already under international sanctions for its missile and nuclear weapons programs, but the United States threatened additional punishment for these new tests, which, in its opinion, are a “serious escalation” in arms.
According Cheong Seong-changa researcher at the Sejong Institute, the international political tension make it “unlikely that Russia would agree to additional sanctions against the North in the event of such a test, due to the invasion of Ukraine, which Pyongyang appears to have seen as the right time to proceed.”
For now, the timing will be closely studied by Pyongyang, and it may need about three more tests to ensure the missile works, the researcher added.
“I think the North will do one or two test launches before April 15,” he said.
Source: Ambito
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