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South Korea Convenes Security Council Over North’s Launch of Ballistic Missile
South Korea Convenes Security Council Over North’s Launch of Ballistic Missile
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South Korea convened its security council on Monday over what its military believes could have been a hypersonic missile launched by North Korea earlier in the day, South Korean media reported, citing authorities.
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Earlier in the day, South Korean and Japanese media reported that North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan. The projectile flew some 1,100 kilometers (683 miles) before falling outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. South Korea’s National Security Office held a meeting to exchange information about the current situation and discuss possible further response measures, while the government continues to «closely monitor North Korea’s actions and maintain firm readiness to respond to any provocations,» the presidential office said in a statement quoted by Yonhap. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, in turn, that Pyongyang could have launched a hypersonic missile, as it was similar to the North Korean intermediate-range missiles equipped with hypersonic warheads launched last January and last April, despite having a shorter range, Yonhap reported. In late 2024, North Korea said that it would use the «toughest» strategy to counter the United States, adding that that military cooperation between South Korea, the US and Japan had become an «aggressive military alliance.»Russian officials repeatedly stressed that it is the US military activities in the Asia-Pacific that are responsible for worsening the security situation in the region.
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SEOUL (Sputnik) – South Korea convened its security council on Monday over what its military believes could have been a hypersonic missile launched by North Korea earlier in the day, South Korean media reported, citing authorities.
Earlier in the day, South Korean and Japanese media reported that North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan. The projectile flew some 1,100 kilometers (683 miles) before falling outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
South Korea’s National Security Office held a meeting to exchange information about the current situation and discuss possible further response measures, while the government continues to «closely monitor North Korea’s actions and maintain firm readiness to respond to any provocations,» the presidential office said in a statement quoted by Yonhap.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, in turn, that Pyongyang could have launched a hypersonic missile, as it was similar to the North Korean intermediate-range missiles equipped with hypersonic warheads launched last January and last April, despite having a shorter range, Yonhap reported.
«Under a firm South Korea-US combined defense posture, our military will closely monitor various North Korean activities so that it does not misjudge the current security situation,» the JCS said in a press statement quoted by Yonhap.
Russian officials repeatedly stressed that it is the US military activities in the Asia-Pacific that are responsible for worsening the security situation in the region.
