The DPRK on Wednesday carried out the launch of a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan.
The Ministry of Defense of Japan confirmed that the rocket launched by North Korea on Wednesday belonged to the class of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
It is reported that the rocket flew 1 thousand km at an altitude of more than 6 thousand km.
The rocket fell 250 km from the Japanese Island of Hokkaido at about 11:13 in the morning.
sources in the Japanese government informed NHK that the rocket, presumably, fell into the ocean outside the exclusive economic zone of Japan.