SEOUL/TOKYO — Nuclear\u002Darmed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting a warning for residents to…
The Japanese government warned citizens to take cover as the missile appeared to have flown over and past its territory before falling into the Pacific Ocean. It said it did not use any defense measures to destroy the missile, which was the first to fly over or past Japan from North Korea since 2017.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
North Korea’s flurry of missile testing is helping make more of its weapons operational, develop new capabilities, and send a message that its weapons development is sovereign right that should be accepted by the world, analysts said. Firing over or past Japan allows North Korea’s scientists to test missiles under more realistic conditions, said Ankit Panda of the U.S.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
South Korea staged its own show of advanced weaponry on Saturday to mark its Armed Forces Day, including multiple rocket launchers, ballistic missiles, main battle tanks, drones and F-35 fighters. “So I guess the extremely sensitive period of the run-up to Xi Jinping’s 20th Party Congress was not deemed sensitive enough in Pyongyang to prevent or at least delay this,” John Delury of Seoul’s Yonsei University, said of Tuesday’s missile launch in a post on Twitter.Article content
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