After four days of the joint statement from the leaders of the US and Japan... North Korea launches ballistic missile

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North Korea responded four days after the leaders of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan met at the ASEAN Summit and issued a joint statement saying they would sternly respond to North Korea's provocations.

Immediately after giving a statement strongly criticizing the Korea-US-Japan summit, he even fired a ballistic missile. 

This is reporter Bae Jun-woo.

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] At 10:48 am, a short-range ballistic missile was launched from Wonsan, Gangwon-do.

It was detected at an altitude of 47 km, a range of 240 km, and a speed of Mach 4, and is known to have hit the uninhabited island 'Alseom' near North Hamgyong Province.

It is North Korea's armed provocation, which resumed after 8 days, and is strongly opposed to the US's stance of strengthening extended deterrence.

Earlier in the morning, North Korea issued a discourse criticizing the Korea-US-Japan summit on the 13th in the name of Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui.

He argued that the more the US strengthens its provision of extended deterrence to North Korea, the more fierce North Korea's military response will be, and that the trilateral mock board of South Korea, the US and Japan will drive the situation on the Korean Peninsula into a more unpredictable phase.

The US strategic bomber B-1B Lancer, an extended deterrent that North Korea opposes, has flown toward the Korean Peninsula.

The B-1B, which flew from Guam, arrived at the US military base in Japan, which is 20 minutes away from North Korea, and held an emergency refueling drill for rapid operation.

Aegis ships from South Korea and the U.S. also held joint missile defense drills.

[Jun-Rak Kim/Chief of Public Affairs at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Yesterday): The ROK and the U.S. closely share the situation through a mutual assistance meeting, and in particular, through the ROK-US combined missile defense training conducted today, a solid combined defense posture…

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Regarding the real-time sharing of North Korean missile detection information agreed upon at the Korea-US-Japan Summit, the South Korean military plans to establish a sharing system through consultations with Japan in the near future.