North Korea launches ballistic missile, South Korea says, two days after claiming to repel U.S. spy plane

North Korea launched a ballistic missile towards its jap waters Wednesday, its neighbors stated, two days after the North threatened “shocking” consequences to protest what it known as a provocative U.S. reconnaissance exercise close to its territory.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Employees says the launch was made on Wednesday morning however gave no additional particulars equivalent to how far the weapon flew.

Japan’s Protection Ministry stated it additionally detected a attainable ballistic missile launch by North Korea.

The launch, the North’s first weapons firing in a couple of month, got here after North Korea earlier this week launched a collection of statements accusing the U.S. of flying a army airplane near North Korea to spy on the North.

The U.S. and South Korea dismissed the North’s accusations and urged it to chorus from any acts or rhetoric that raises animosities.

In a press release Monday night time, Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean sister Kim Jong Un, claimed that the U.S. spy airplane flew over the North’s jap unique financial zone eight occasions earlier within the day. She claimed the North scrambled warplanes to ward off the U.S. airplane.

“A stunning incident would happen in the long term within the 20-40 kilometer part by which the U.S. spy planes habitually intrude into the sky above the financial water zone” of North Korea, Kim Yo Jong stated.

North Korea has made quite a few comparable threats over alleged U.S. reconnaissance actions, however its newest statements got here amid heightened animosities over North Korea’s barrage of missile checks earlier this 12 months.