By Yoonjung Search engine marketing and Emiko Jozuka | CNN
North Korea fired at the least one ballistic missile on an obvious trajectory over Japan on Tuesday morning native time, in accordance with regional officers.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Workers confirmed the launch. Based on a tweet posted by Japan’s Prime Minister’s workplace, the projectile is “believed to have launched” over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido — marking a possible escalation for North Korean missile launches.
The tweet urged folks to take shelter inside a constructing or underground.
“The aforementioned missile is believed to have handed by the Pacific Ocean round 07:29 a.m. JST,” the premier’s workplace stated in one other tweet.
The identical assertion urged civilians in Japan “to not strategy something suspicious that's discovered and to instantly contact the police or hearth division.”
Based on CNN’s depend, Tuesday’s launch marks North Korea’s twenty third missile launch this yr, together with each ballistic and cruise missiles.
Nevertheless, launches over Japan are uncommon; the final time North Korea fired a ballistic missile over territorial Japan was on September 15, 2017, when the projectile flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.