“North Korea launched one ballistic missile.

She flew a distance of about 500 km, falling, presumably, outside the exclusive economic zone of Japan, ”TASS quoted Japanese Deputy Defense Minister Makoto Oniki as saying.

He added that Japan protested to the DPRK through the embassy in Beijing.

Earlier, the Yonhap agency, citing the South Korean Chiefs of Staff, reported that North Korea fired an unidentified projectile towards the Sea of ​​Japan.