S Korea and Japan: A ‘milestone’ meeting of frenemies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nThe activity comes amid ongoing naval drills between the US and South Korea around the Korean peninsula- the allies’ largest in five years. North Korea has repeatedly said it sees such exercises as provocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The missile was fired at 07:10 (22:10 GMT) from Pyongyang on the east coast of North Korea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Japan’s defence ministry confirmed it as an ICBM type and said it flew higher than 6,000km for about 70 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following Thursday’s launch, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered his country’s military to continue with the joint US exercises as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that Pyongyang would pay for its “reckless provocations”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
North Korea last fired an ICBM less than a month ago- an action that sparked a UN emergency meeting and condemnation from G7 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ICBMs are particularly worrying because of their long range, including mainland United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
North Korea’s ramped-up missile activity is set to be top of agenda when Mr Yoon meets Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo later on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many hope the meeting – which has been hailed as a “milestone” in the rapprochement of South Korea and Japan – will result in closer security ties and military cooperation between the two countries in the face of North Korea’s aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both countries said they would convene their national security councils following Thursday’s missile launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC News: North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) just hours before the leaders of South Korea and Japan are due to meet for a landmark summit. Both Japanese and South Korean officials confirmed the long-range missile’s launch on Thursday morning. It flew about 1,000km (620 miles) landing in waters west of Japan. It is the fourth missile launch from Pyongyang this past week – although the other rounds have been short-range. The activity comes amid ongoing naval drills between the US and South Korea around the Korean peninsula- the allies’ largest in five years. North Korea has… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30809,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30807\/revisions\/30809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}