A shot condemned "strongly" by the German presidency at the G7.

North Korea fired an "undefined type missile" hours after Seoul announced it would continue military air drills with the United States, the South Korean military said Thursday evening.

"North Korea fired an undefined type missile," the South Korean military chiefs said.

North Korea has called the “Vigilant Storm” aerial military exercises currently being conducted by the United States and South Korea near the Korean peninsula a “poor choice”, according to official North Korean media. .

Continuing these exercises is "a very dangerous and bad choice," said Pak Jong Chon, secretary of the Workers' Party Central Committee, according to a statement relayed by the official KCNA news agency.


The firing follows three new projectiles, including an apparently failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), launched the day after a record-breaking salvo of fire that has heightened tension in the region.

"The launch of an ICBM by North Korea was likely to end in failure" during the separation of the second stage of the rocket, said the South Korean army.

According to her, this missile traveled 760 km at a maximum altitude of 1,920 km and at the speed of Mach 15 (15 times the speed of sound).

The other two first missiles traveled about 330 km at Mach 5 and a maximum altitude of 70 km.

Air-raid sirens sounded for the second consecutive day on the South Korean island of Ulleungdo, located 120 km east of the Korean peninsula, local media reported.

An alert was also triggered in northern Japan even though, contrary to the authorities' initial claims, the missile did not ultimately fly over the archipelago.

According to Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada, the projectile "disappeared over the Sea of ​​Japan".

On Wednesday, North Korea had already fired 23 missiles, one of which had crossed the "Northern Limit Line" (NLL) which extends the inter-Korean land border at sea, while remaining in international waters. 

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