The Japanese government urged residents of the northern island of Hokkaido to seek refuge after announcing the launch of a North Korean ballistic missile.
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“Evacuate immediately, evacuate immediately,” the government said in an alert asking Hokkaido residents to take shelter in a building or underground.
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The J-Alert civil protection alert, activated at 8:02 local time this Thursday (Japan time), calls for the immediate evacuation of the population inside buildings or in underground shelters, and notes that the missile “could fall around Hokkaido” from that time.
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For his part, he south korean army had reported minutes before that North Korea had launched an “unidentified ballistic missile” into the Sea of Japan (called the East Sea in the two Koreas).
The projectile was recorded by Japanese radar systems and the Japanese Ministry of Defense reported that Pyongyang launched “what appears to be a ballistic missile”, so it could be a long or medium range weapon.
On Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a meeting of the Central Military Commission to discuss ways to “deal with the escalating moves by the US imperialists and South Korea’s treacherous puppets to launch a war of aggression.” , said the official agency KCNA.
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Kim ordered the country’s deterrence capabilities to be strengthened at “faster speed” and with a “more practical and offensive” approach. Parallel to the impulse of the arms tests of the hermetic communist country, United States and South Korea increased military maneuvers in the area, considered by Pyongyang a rehearsal for a eventual invasion.
AFP
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