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North Korea fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into the sea on Wednesday, South Korea and Japan said, in the first such launch by Pyongyang this year.<\/p>\n

In the decade since Kim Jong-un took power, North Korea has seen rapid progress in its military technology at the cost of international sanctions.<\/p>\n

The nuclear-armed nation’s first apparent weapons launch of 2022 followed a year of major arms tests despite the severe economic hardship during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The South Korean military said the North fired what is “presumed to be a ballistic missile” towards the sea east of the peninsula at around 8.10am (2310 GMT Tuesday).<\/p>\n

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida described it as a “possible ballistic missile launch”.<\/p>\n

“It is truly regrettable that North Korea has continuously launched missiles since last year,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n

Kishida said the Japanese government was analysing details, including how many missiles may have been launched.<\/p>\n

“There have been no reports of damage to Japanese aircraft and vessels so far,” Japan’s top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters.<\/p>\n

“We are continuing analysis, but if it took a normal orbit, it is expected to have travelled about 500 kilometres and fallen outside Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The launch followed a speech by Kim last week in which he said North Korea would continue to build up its military capabilities.<\/p>\n

“I expect North Korea to continue refining its arsenal as a way to improve its strategic position at a time of political change in the region,” Jean Lee, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Centre, told AFP.<\/p>\n

In 2021, North Korea said it successfully tested a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, a long-range cruise missile, a train-launched weapon, and what it described as a hypersonic warhead.<\/p>\n

The dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang remains stalled, following the collapse of talks between Kim and then-president Donald Trump in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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