The government of Japan has warned its citizens this Monday after a ballistic missile launched from North Korea fly over their territory again. This is the second time in less than ten days.
The bullet reportedly passed through the northern part of the country, above the Hokkaido region, for which the Japanese government would have deployed a special emergency operation: it would have sent warning messages to its inhabitants through various electronic wearable devices safe and he also made sirens sound in some cities exposed to danger.
The message sent by the authorities has been disseminated by local media and became known through social networks for the publication of an image that showed how the alert was broadcast on a newscast.
“North Korea appears to have launched a missile. Evacuate inside a building or go to the basement. Area Objective: Hokkaido“said the concise statement.
Along with this text, a video went viral in which the civil sirens that were lit in the areas considered “most vulnerable” to any possible attack.
The same sounded in Hokkaido and Aomori alert the neighbors to take refuge.
As for the missile, the South Korean military reported that it was fired at around 7:23 am local time on Tuesday (22:23 GMT on Monday). to the sea of Japan.
For its part, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that the rocket crashed at some point in the Pacific Ocean, unspecified.
“North Korea launched a missile to the east today. This ballistic missile passed over the Tohoku region (Northern Japan) and we believe that it fell into waters outside the exclusive economic zone Japan around 7:44 am (22:44 GMT on Monday), Japanese executive spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno assured.
He also pointed this out There were no injuries and which so far have not been reported damage to the boat missile product.
Similarly, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) detailed, for its part, that it was allegedly a “ballistic missile intermediate range“Launched from the Jagang province, located in the north of the neighboring country.
Although he is not the first to fly over the territory of the Asian archipelago, he is the first time that Japan activates its civilian alert system for this reason since September 15, 2017, when another North Korean bullet flew over Hokkaido.
This is the second missile launched by North Korea against Japan in 10 days.
On September 24, another “unspecified” ballistic missile landed in the Sea of Japan. He had also been shot by North Korea since The Kim Jong-un regime.
The fact had been reported by the South Korean armywho specified that the launch took place two days after the arrival in the country of a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to carry out maneuvers defined as “defensive”.
According to military sources reported to the local news agency Yonhap, the missile was launched from the ground and fell outside Japan’s economic exclusion zone.
Given that the incident occurred amid reports that the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, was preparing to launch a “ballistic missile from a submarine“, the Japanese authorities have activated the alarms.
In this regard, the Japanese coast guard confirmed the possible launch of another missile, citing information from the Tokyo Ministry of Defense, and asked the boats in the area keep an eye out for.
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Source: Clarin
