Seoul/Tokyo, Sept. 20 (Jiji Press)–North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan from around Wonsan, Kangwon Province, at around 3 p.m. Sunday, according to the South Korean military. According to Japanese Defense Ministry sources, it is believed to have fallen into waters outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. At around 6 p.m., what was possibly a ballistic missile was again launched from North Korea and likely fallen outside Japan’s EEZ, the ministry said. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ordered her government to collect and analyze related information. In a statement on Thursday, Kim Yo Jong, chief of the General Affairs Department of the Workers’ Party of Korea, threatened countermeasures against recent joint defense drills among the United States, Japan, South Korea and others. On Sept. 12, North Korea also fired ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. The country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency has reported that firepower attack training involving attack drones, strategic cruise missiles and other weapons was conducted that day. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
