North Korea fires riled missile over Japan for first time since 2017, citizens run for safety (videos)

On Tuesday morning, October 4, North Korea instigated an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for first time since 2017 , urging Tokyo to activate the country’s missile alert system and order people to take shelter from falling debris.

For the first time in five years, the last time North Korea launched a missile over Japan was in 2017, at the height of a period of “fire and fury” when Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un traded insults with then-US president Donald Trump.

The South Korean military stated on Tuesday that it had detected the launch of an IRBM that flew roughly 4,500 kilometers (2800 miles) at an altitude of around 970 kilometers and speeds of around Mach 17.

In a statement made by the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, he said;

“Specific details are under close analysis by South Korean and US intelligence.”

The president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol tagged the launch a “provocation” that defiled United Nations regulations.

A statement made by his office said,

Yoon “ordered a stern response and to take corresponding measures in cooperation with the United States and the international community.”

Tokyo also attested it had fired an IRBM, activated the country’s missile alert warning system and warned people to take shelter.

“North Korea appears to have launched a missile. Please evacuate into buildings or underground,” the government said in an alert issued at 7:29 am (2229 GMT Monday).

The notice was issued for two northern parts of the nation, according to NHK.

“A ballistic missile is believed to have passed over our country and fallen in the Pacific Ocean. This is an act of violence following recent repeated launches of ballistic missiles. We strongly condemn this,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters.

Yasukazu Hamada, the Defence Minister unveiled that North Korea “has in the past launched Hwasong 12-type missiles four times, so this could be the same type”.

The flight distance, measured by Tokyo at 4,600 kilometers, was expected to be a new record for that specific missile.

With US-North Korean talks deadlocked, nuclear-armed North Korea has stepped up its military modernization efforts this year, testing a slew of prohibited weapons, including an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), for the first time since 2017.

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