North Korea fires suspected ICBM, Japanese told to take shelter

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n korea mslSEOUL,Nov 03,2022: A day after firing at least 23 missiles, its largest deployment ever in a single day, North Korea continued to escalate tensions on Thursday morning by launching three more, including what South Korean defense officials said was an intercontinental ballistic missile, governments in South Korea and Japan said.

The launches triggered alarms in neighboring Japan, which initially set off its emergency alert system in three prefectures in northern Japan, exhorting residents to take shelter and warning that a missile could fly over the archipelago.

NHK, the public broadcaster, initially reported that government sources had said that a missile had flown over Japan for the second time in a month. But less than an hour later, the defense minister, Yasukazu Hamada, told reporters that the ministry had analyzed data and determined that the missile had not flown through Japanese airspace.

A South Korean defense official said the ICBM test appeared to be a failure, judging from the missile’s speed and the altitude it reached, which were below those of comparable launches in the past. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the military’s analysis before an official announcement.



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