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A missile fired from North Korea landed in the sea off the Japanese coast yesterday, in a launch condemned as “outrageous” and a danger to peace in the region.
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting requested by the US and Japan to discuss the latest test, which UN diplomats condemned as a violation of previous Security Council resolutions.
Two ballistic missiles were fired simultaneously, although one of the projectiles exploded immediately after launch, the South Korean defence ministry said.
The second missile landed about 250km off the Oga peninsula on the west coast of Japan, according to Defence Minister Gen Nakatani.
Tokyo said the missile had landed inside the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
The launch was an “outrageous act and a grave threat to our country’s national security”, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.
“It was a clear violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. We lodged a strong protest with North Korea,” he told reporters.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the launch, said Stephane Dujarric, his spokesman, adding that “such actions seriously undermine regional peace and stability.”
Peter Wilson, British deputy ambassador to the UN, said that North Korea firing a missile into Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone was “something the (Security) Council should take extremely seriously.”
The launch touched off another wave of criticism from the West, following several such actions by the isolated regime in recent months.
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