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UN Security Council meeting requested by the United States
On the North Korea question, the US has asked the United Nations Security Council to meet today. “We have called for a Security Council meeting to address the dangerous launch,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield confirmed on Twitter.
We have called for a Security Council meeting to address the DPRK’s dangerous long-range ballistic missile launch that overflew Japan.
We must limit the DPRK’s ability to advance its unlawful ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction programs.https: //t.co/DpxvnvaxcR
– Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (@USAmbUN) October 4, 2022
Seoul army apologizes after missile launch crashed to the ground
The South Korean military apologized after a short-range Hyumoo-2 ballistic missile crashed inside an airbase near the South Korean coastal city of Gangneung, causing alarm among residents who thought they were under the ground. attack from North Korea. Although the missile did not explode, the noise and subsequent fire made the people of Gangneung think that the North had launched an attack. There are no reports of injuries.
The missiles launched should be more than four, including the one that crashed to the ground, reports the Seoul army caught in the international media. The incident occurred when the South Korean and US militaries launched a volley of missiles into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, in response to the launch of a North Korean ballistic missile on Japan for the first time in five years.
UN Security Council meeting today
UN Security Council emergency meeting tonight on North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile that flew over Japan. The meeting was requested by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Albania, Norway and Ireland.
Missiles in the Sea of Japan, investigations into “anomalous flight”
The incident in the Sea of Japan involved a Hyumoo-2 short-range ballistic missile. The missile crashed inside an Air Force base on the outskirts of the city. The army has made it known that it is investigating the causes of the missile’s “anomalous flight”.
Previously, the South Korean General Staff announced that four Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles and another Hyumoo-2 missile had been successfully launched during the joint exercises in response to North Korea’s provocation. Pyonyang, in fact, yesterday carried out the first ballistic test in eight months, launching an IRBM missile that traveled about 4,600 kilometers and flew over Japan.
South Korean missile crashes to the ground by mistake during exercises with the USA
A South Korean ballistic missile crashed to the ground in the early hours of today in Gangneung, in the north-east of the country, during joint exercises with the United States, panicking the residents of the coastal city already shaken by the increasingly provocative missile tests. of North Korea. The Washington Post reports.
South Korea and the United States have launched 4 surface-to-ground missiles into the Sea of Japan (Sea of the East) in response to North Korea’s provocation. This was announced by the Seoul armed forces. A South Korean ballistic missile accidentally crashed to the ground in the early hours of today in Gangneung, in the north-east of the country, during joint exercises with the United States, panicking the residents of the coastal city already shaken by missile tests. more provocative than North Korea. The explosion and subsequent fire caused by the missile, the paper writes, led many to believe it was a North Korean attack. Subsequently, the Seoul General Staff announced that it was an accident and that there were no injuries.
