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Nuclear-armed North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension of train operations in northern Japan. The Japanese government warned citizens to take cover on Tuesday as the missile appeared to have flown over and past its territory before falling into the Pacific Ocean. It was the first North Korean missile to follow such a trajectory since 2017, and Tokyo said its 4600 kilometre range may have been the longest distance travelled for a North Korean test flight, which are more often “lofted” higher into space to avoid flying over neighbouring countries. The latest launch was Pyongyang’s fifth in 10 days, amid military muscle-flexing by the United States, South Korea, and Japan. Last week, the three countries conducted trilateral anti-submarine exercises that included a US aircraft carrier, which stopped in South Korea for the first time since 2017. Recent tests have drawn relatively muted responses from Washington, which is focused on the war in Ukraine as well as other domestic and foreign crises, but the US military has stepped up displays of force in the region. Tokyo said it took no steps to shoot the missile down. Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada said Japan wouldn’t rule out any options, including counterattack capabilities, as it looks to strengthen its defences in the face of repeated missile launches from North Korea. South Korea also said it would boost its military and increase allied cooperation. “North Korea’s series of actions, including its repeated ballistic missile launches, threatens the peace and security of Japan, the region, and the international community, and poses a serious challenge to the entire international community, including Japan,” Japan’s top government spokesperson Hirokazu Matsuno, told a news conference. Officials in Tokyo and Seoul said the missile flew between 4500 to 4600km to a maximum altitude of about 1000km. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it appeared to have been an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) launched from North Korea’s Jagang Province. North Korea has used that province to launch several recent tests, including multiple missiles that it claimed were “hypersonic”. North Korea’s flurry of missile testing helps make more of its weapons operational, develop new capabilities and sends a message that development is s sovereign right, analysts said. North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs are banned by United Nations Security Council resolutions, which have imposed sanctions on the country. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called the test “reckless” and said it would bring a decisive response from his country’s military, its allies and the international community. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called North Korea’s actions “barbaric”, and said the government would continue to gather and analyse information. The launch over Japan was “unfortunate” and “not a productive path forward,” Daniel Kritenbrink, the top US diplomat for East Asia, said during an online event hosted by the Institute for Corean-American Studies. The North has completed preparations for a nuclear test, which it might look to undertake sometime between China’s Communist Party Congress this month and US mid-term elections in November, South Korean MPs said last week.
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काठमाडौँ। उत्तर कोरियाले जापानको केही भागमा मध्यवर्ती दूरीको ब्यालेस्टिक मिसाइल प्रहार गरेको छ । उत्तरी जापानमा ब्यालेस्टिक मिसाइल प्रहार भएपछि जापान सरकारले होक्काइडो टापुमा केही समय उडान तथा रेल सञ्चालन नगर्न आग्रह गरेको छ । सन् २०१७ यता उत्तर कोरियाले जापानमाथि गरेको यो पहिलो मिसाइल प्रहार हो । संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघले उत्तर कोरियालाई ब्यालेस्टिक र आणविक हतियार परीक्षण गर्न प्रतिबन्ध लगाएको छ । मिसाइल जापानबाट झण्डै तीन हजार किलोमिटर (१८ सय ६० माइल) प्रशान्त महासागरमा खसेको थियो । जापानका प्रधानमन्त्री फुमियो किशिदाले यो प्रक्षेपणको निन्दा गर्नुभएको छ । जापान सरकारले आफ्नो राष्ट्रिय सुरक्षा परिषद्को बैठक समेत बोलाएको छ ।