
According to the Ministry of Defense, a ballistic missile was launched from North Korea on the morning of 4 April, flew approximately 4,600 km over the Tohoku region, and is believed to have fallen into the Pacific Ocean outside Japan's EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone).
This is the first time since September five years ago that North Korea has launched a ballistic missile over Japan.
.👉What we know so far about this missile:
💥The highest altitude is about 1000 km, the longest flight so far about 4600 km
💥From around 7:28 to 7:29, it passed over Aomori Prefecture
💥Around 7:44, about 3200 km east of Japan Japan's EEZ = presumed to have fallen outside the exclusive economic zone
💥 IRBM = presumed to be a missile with a range equal to or greater than that of an intermediate-range ballistic missile class possibility of isomorphism
💥 Possibly the same type as the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile class, which has been launched four times so far.
👉Prime Minister Kishida: "Absolutely unacceptable"
It is a serious and imminent threat to the security of our country and a threat to the peace and security of the region and the international community and is absolutely unacceptable.