북, 동해로 "극초음속 시험발사 했다가 실패 추정" 오물풍선에 이어 도발
North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea this morning,. which apparently failed.
Wednesday's launch came hours after the regime sent more trash-carrying balloons to the South late Tuesday.
Our defense correspondent Choi Min-jung reports.
North Korea on Wednesday morning, launched a ballistic missile that appears to have failed.
According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the regime fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea at around 5:30 AM from the Pyongyang area.
A military official explained that the North appears to have attempted to test-launch a hypersonic missile.
However, the military said the launch apparently failed, as the missile reportedly exploded mid-air after traveling some 250 kilometers.
Seoul and Washington's intelligence authorities are conducting further analysis of the launch.
This is the regime's first ballistic missile launch in almost a month.
The launch comes after Pyongyang, earlier this week, slammed the arrival of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in South Korea, and warned of taking new deterrence measures.
The missile provocation also comes hours after North Korea sent trash-carrying balloons for the second straight night, on Tuesday.
This marks the sixth balloon launch since May 28th.
On Monday night, the regime sent around 350 waste balloons,.. of which a hundred landed in South Korean territory, mostly in Seoul and North Gyeonggi-do Province.
Pyongyang is presumed to have launched around 2-thousand balloons so far.
The latest balloon delivery caused dozens of domestic and international flights at Incheon International Airport to be suspended for around three hours early Wednesday, to prevent the risk of an accident.
Choi Min-jung, Arirang News.
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2024-06-26, 09:00 (KST)
