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summary_1.docxNorth Korea Fires Short-Range Ballistic Missile
By
Jonathan Cheng
Updated May 28, 2017 9:14 p.m. ET
The projectile was fired at 5:10 a.m. local time from an airfield near the city of Wonsan on the east coast, said Ramon Osorio, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Command, who added that the missile flew for about six minutes before splashing down in the waters between Korea and Japan.
The spokesman added that authorities were still analyzing the details of the launch, including the height and distance of its flight and the type of projectile.
South Korea’s national security chief convened a meeting to discuss the launch, according to a spokesman for the presidential Blue House in Seoul.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the projectile had landed in its exclusive economic zone, or within 200 miles of the coastline, though reported no damage to planes or vessels. “We condemn these actions in the strongest manner,” Mr. Suga said.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters at the prime minister’s office that he would work with the U.S. and South Korea to monitor North Korea’s actions. “This cannot be tolerated,” Mr. Abe said.
U.S. President Donald Trump had been briefed on the launch, according to a spokesman for his National Security Council.
In each of the two previous weeks, North Korea has test-fired a missile, each time claiming new capabilities.
Two weeks ago, it test-fired a missile that it later called the Hwasong-12, an intermediate-range missile that analysts said could fly 2,800 miles—far enough to reach the U.S. military base in Guam, and a “considerably longer range than its current missiles.”
Roughly a week ago, North Korea fired off a Polaris-2 missile, a solid-fuel missile that requires almost no preparatory time to be launched, giving Pyongyang more flexibility and stealth in its arsenal.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week declared the Polaris-2 “very accurate,” and ordered its mass production , about three months after the missile was first publicly unveiled, according to North Korea’s state media.
