North Korea fires ‘ballistic missile’ into Japanese waters

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>North Korea has fired an apparent ballistic missile that flew almost 300 miles and landed in the waters of Japan&&num;8217&semi;s economic zone&period; It was the latest in a string of launches as the North seeks to build nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile &lpar;ICBM&rpar; that can reach the US mainland&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The suspected Scud-type missile launched from the coastal town of Wonsan on Monday flew about 280 miles&comma; the South&&num;8217&semi;s Joint Chiefs of Staff said&period; It landed in western waters that are Japan&&num;8217&semi;s exclusive maritime economic zone&comma; Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said&period; He said there was no immediate report of damage to planes or vessels in the area&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>North Korea is still thought to be several years away from its goal of being able to target US mainland cities with a nuclear ICBM&comma; but each new test puts it closer to success&period; The North has a strong arsenal of short- and medium-range missiles that target Japan and South Korea and US forces in the region&comma; and it is working to perfect its longer-range missiles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There was no immediate comment from North Korea&&num;8217&semi;s state controlled media&period; But the launch followed a report from the North that said leader Kim Jong Un had watched a successful test of a new type of anti-aircraft guided weapon system&period; It was not clear from the report when the test happened&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After the test&comma; Mr Kim said the weapon system&&num;8217&semi;s ability to detect and track targets had &&num;8220&semi;remarkably&&num;8221&semi; improved and its accuracy also increased&comma; according to the official Korean Central News Agency&period; KCNA cited him as ordering officials to mass-produce and deploy the system all over the country so as to &&num;8220&semi;completely spoil the enemy&&num;8217&semi;s wild dream to command the air&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The North&&num;8217&semi;s nuclear and missile programmes are perhaps the biggest foreign policy challenges to the new leaders in allies Washington and Seoul&period; President Donald Trump has alternated in his public statements between bellicosity and flattery&period; But his administration is still working to solidify a policy to deal with North Korea&&num;8217&semi;s nuclear ambitions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A new liberal president in Seoul&comma; Moon Jae-in&comma; has signalled he will be flexible in expanding civilian exchange with North Korea&period; But many analysts say Mr Moon will probably not push for any major rapprochement projects because North Korea has gone too far on its nuclear programme&period; Monday&&num;8217&semi;s missile launch was the third one by North Korea since Mr Moon&&num;8217&semi;s inauguration on May 10&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Moon called a National Security Council meeting to discuss the North&&num;8217&semi;s launch&period; Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&comma; who had just returned from a G7 meeting in Italy&comma; told reporters&colon; &&num;8220&semi;North Korea&&num;8217&semi;s provocation by ignoring repeated warning from the international society is absolutely unacceptable&period;&&num;8221&semi; He said Japan will &&num;8220&semi;take concrete steps with the US in order to deter North Korea&comma;&&num;8221&semi; although he did not elaborate on specific actions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We will also co-operate with South Korea and other members of the international society and maintain high levels of caution in order to do utmost for the protection of our people&&num;8217&semi;s safety&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Besides its regular ballistic missile test-launches&comma; 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