North Korea launches missile that lands near Japan and has the capability of hitting the US

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, in a statement broadcast on big screen.| Photo: EFE/EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA

North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, as announced by South Korea on Friday (18), a day after it launched a smaller missile and warned of “military responses fiercest” to the United States. ICBMs are North Korea’s longest-range weapon and are designed to deliver a nuclear warhead to any location in the United States.

The Japan Coast Guard said the missile likely landed in the sea around 2022 kilometers west of Hokkaido. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said there were no reports of damage but that the North’s repeated missile launches could not be tolerated. According to him, the missile appears to have landed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone. On Thursday (2022), North Korea North fired a short-range ballistic missile as its foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, warned of “fiercer military responses” to US moves to increase its military presence, saying Washington was making a “gamble it will regret”. .