North Korea launches missile toward the Sea of Japan in longest attempt so far: reports

North Korea, connected Wednesday night, launched a long-range ballistic rocket toward nan Sea of Japan, a time aft South Korean officials reported nan North was preparing to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM), which reportedly had nan longest formation clip of immoderate erstwhile test.

Reuters reported that nan Joint Chiefs of Staff said successful a connection that nan rocket was launched astatine a sharply raised perspective astatine 7:10 a.m. section time, from an area adjacent North Korea’s superior of Pyongyang.

The Japanese authorities later said nan rocket fell into nan oversea astatine 8:37 a.m., aliases 87 minutes later. 

Japan’s minister of defense, Gen Nakatani said nan formation clip was apt nan longest of immoderate North Korean rocket motorboat and could beryllium a caller type of missile.

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North Korea reportedly launched a long-range ballistic rocket toward nan Sea of Japan. (KIM Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"It is believed nan North Korean ballistic rocket is simply a long-range ballistic rocket fired astatine a precocious angle," nan Joint Chiefs of Staff said successful a statement.

The Japanese government said nan rocket would onshore astir 190 miles westbound of Okushiri Island, disconnected nan bluish Hokkaido region, and extracurricular its exclusive economical zone.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba later stated location was nary reported harm from nan rocket launch.

Nakatani said Japan powerfully condemns North Korea’s action, which not conscionable threatened Japan but besides nan world community.

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FILE - In this photograph provided by nan North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, supervises artillery firing drills successful North Korea connected March 7, 2024.  (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

South Korea’s Defense Intelligence Command said Wednesday that North Korea had placed a mobile launcher successful mentation to motorboat what could beryllium an ICBM astir nan clip of nan U.S. statesmanlike predetermination adjacent Tuesday.

The National Security Council (NSC) issued a connection Wednesday night, powerfully condemning North Korea’s ICBM test.

"This motorboat is simply a flagrant usurpation of aggregate UN Security Council resolutions. While U.S. INDOPACOM has assessed it did not airs an contiguous threat to U.S. personnel, aliases territory, aliases to our allies, this motorboat needlessly raises tensions and risks destabilizing nan information business successful nan region," NSC spokesperson Sean Savett said. "It only demonstrates that nan DPRK continues to prioritize its unlawful weapons of wide demolition and ballistic rocket programs complete nan well-being of its people."

Savett added, "We impulse each countries to condemn these violations and telephone connected nan DPRK to cease its destabilizing actions and prosecute successful superior dialogue. The nationalist information squad is intimately coordinating pinch our friends and partners. The United States will return each basal measures to guarantee nan information of nan American homeland and Republic of Korea and Japanese allies."

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Although North Korea tested a ballistic rocket connected July 1, 2024, nan past clip nan state tested an ICBM was successful December of past year. The ICBM successful December – fueled by solid-propellant and fired from a roadworthy launcher – was besides fired astatine a sharply raised perspective and had a formation clip that could beryllium translated to astir 9,300 miles connected a normal trajectory, which Reuters added, could put anyplace successful nan mainland of nan U.S. wrong range.

Reuters contributed to this report.