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North Korea launched an unidentified projectile towards the Sea of Japan on Tuesday, the South Korean army announced, a week after Pyongyang claimed to have tested a new “hypersonic missile” and a few days before the inauguration of Donald Trump.
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January 14, 2025 – 02:27
(Keystone-ATS) “North Korea launched an unidentified projectile towards the East Sea,” another name for the Sea of Japan, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, without giving further details in the statement. immediate.
The launch comes a week after Pyongyang fired what North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presented as “an intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile” intended to deter “all rivals” of the country in the Pacific region.
This test took place during a visit to South Korea by outgoing American Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He was the first from the North since Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election in November.
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