SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korea launched an “unidentified projectile” on Wednesday but the launch apparently failed immediately, the South Korean military said after Japanese media reported a blast. of presumed missile.
The South Korean Defense Minister said in a statement that the alleged missile was fired from an airfield outside Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
A source in Japan’s defense ministry called the projectile a suspected ballistic missile, Japanese state broadcaster NHK reported.
(Report Kantaro Komiya; French version Camille Raynaud)