South Korea and Japan recorded several launches of ballistic missiles from North Korea. They all fell into the water. Tokyo in connection with this requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
Yonhap agency, citing South Korean military, reported on the launch of one rocket to the side of the Japanese Sea on February 20. Flight characteristics are currently analyzing. The Japanese Ministry of Defense also announced the launch. According to the agency, the launch of two missiles was recorded. The height of the first was 100 km, the range was 400 km, the second – 50 and 350 km, respectively. They fell outside the exclusive economic zone of Japan.
North Korea confirmed the conduct of exercises using reactive systems of volley fire. As follows from the message of Tsat, the artillery division of the Korean People’s Army made two shots from the 600-mm missile system of a salvo fire towards the Sea of Japan. Deputy Head of the Department of the Central Committee of the Korea Labor Party and the sister of the DPRK head Kim Jong -un Kime Jong said that North Korea would continue to launch missiles into the Pacific Ocean if American troops did not stop the Korean Peninsula. February 19, South Korea and Japan conducted joint exercises with the United States against the background of the launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile DPRK.
According to her, Pyongyang watches that recently the movement of American strategic shock weapons has been activated on the Korean Peninsula. “We will take the corresponding opposition if it is regarded as any direct or indirect threat,” she said.