The missile was fired Tuesday into the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said.
North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday, demonstrating its commitment to advancing its missile program despite international sanctions and other pressure to halt it.
The missile traveled hundreds of miles over Sea of Japan and Hokkaido, an island prefecture in northern Japan.
President Trump said the U. S. heard Pyongyang’s message «loud and clear.»
«This regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior, » Trump said Tuesday in a statement.
«Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world, ” he said. “All options are on the table.»
The Pentagon reported it detected and tracked the launch at 5: 27 a.m. local time just outside Pyongyang, near Sunan Air Base, in North Korea, flying east over northern Japan before landing in the Pacific Ocean about 500 nautical miles east of Japan. The launch was the first to cross over Japan since 2009.
Initial assessments by the U. S. military indicated it was an intermediate-range ballistic missile and that it did not pose a threat to North America nor to Guam, a U. S. territory.
“We are working with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment and we will provide a public update if warranted, » the Pentagon said in a statement.
