The Japanese Ministry of Defense issued a statement according to which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea launched a ballistic missile.
According to the department, this happened on Sunday, January 14, at 14:53 local time (in Belarus at that moment it was 08:53).
It is noted that the launched missile flew to the northeast.
Japanese experts began to analyze information about the missile launch and have already come to several preliminary conclusions.
What is known about the flight of the rocket
The Japanese department assumes that the ballistic missile launched by the DPRK flew at least 500 km.
The missile weapons, according to the conclusions of experts from Japan, flew at an altitude of more than 50 km.
It fell near the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula in the Sea of Japan, – MIA provides a translated quote from a message from the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
It is emphasized that the rocket did not reach the exclusive economic zone of the Land of the Rising Sun.
It is also noted that no damage was caused. Despite this, Tokyo protested to Pyongyang.
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