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Pyongyang launches missile during Blinken’s visit to Seoul
This is the first missile test by North Korea this year. The last shots took place on November 6, a few hours before the American presidential election.
A Seoul resident watches a news bulletin showing images of a North Korean missile test on November 5, 2024, hours before Americans vote for a new president.
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North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Monday towards the Sea of Japan, also called the East Sea, the South Korean army announced, the day of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Seoul .
“North Korea launched an unknown ballistic missile towards the East Sea,” the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
This is the first missile test by North Korea this year. The last shots, a salvo of short-range ballistic missiles, took place on November 6, a few hours before the presidential election in the United States.
Japan confirms
The previous week North Korea tested what it said was its new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the most advanced in its arsenal.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense also announced, on X, that it had detected a missile launch from North Korea.
This shot comes the day Antony Blinken makes a farewell tour to Seoul and Tokyo before Donald Trump arrives at the White House.
It also comes at a time when South Korea is plunged into one of the worst political crises in its history, after the failed proclamation of martial law by President Yoon Suk Yeol who was subsequently dismissed and is threatened with arrest.
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