North Korea on Tuesday fired a ballistic missile over Japan, its neighbors said, escalating tests of weapons designed to strike key targets in regional U.S. allies. “At least one missile fired from North Korea flew over Japan and was believed to have landed in the Pacific Ocean”, The Japanese prime minister’s office said.
Meanwhile, Talking about the same, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters that “the firing, which followed a recent series of launches by North Korea, is a reckless act, and I strongly condemn it.” He further stated that he would convene the National Security Council to discuss the situation.
This missile test is said to be the most significant test done by North Korea since January, when it fired the Hwasong-12 missile that has the capacity to reach the U.S. territory of Guam. It is also said to be the first time that a North Korean missile has flown over Japan since 2017.
Marking the same, Japanese authorities issued a “J-alert” to residents in northeastern regions to evacuate to buildings nearby. Also, all the trains were temporarily suspended in Japan’s Aomori and Hokkaido regions before their operations were resumed after a government notice that the North Korean missile appeared to have landed in the Pacific.
