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SEOUL: North\u00a0Korea\u00a0fired two short-range ballistic missile toward its east coast on Thursday (Oct 6) in the direction of Japan, following joint South\u00a0Korean and US missile drills and the return of a US aircraft carrier to the region in response to the\u00a0North’s recent missile tests.<\/p>\n
The missile launch was the sixth in 12 days and the first since\u00a0North\u00a0Korea\u00a0fired an intermediate-range missile (IRBM) over Japan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The launch was reported by South\u00a0Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Japanese government.<\/p>\n
The Japan Coast Guard said they appeared to have landed already.<\/p>\n
“This is the sixth time in the short period just counting the ones from the end of September,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters. “This absolutely cannot be tolerated.”<\/p>\n
The launch came about an hour after\u00a0North\u00a0Korea\u00a0condemned the United States for talking to the United Nations Security Council about Pyongyang’s “just counteraction measures of the\u00a0Korean People’s Army on south\u00a0Korea-US joint drills”.<\/p>\n
In a statement released by the reclusive nation’s foreign ministry,\u00a0North\u00a0Korea\u00a0also condemned Washington for repositioning a US aircraft carrier in the waters off the\u00a0Korean peninsula, saying it posed a serious threat to the stability of the situation.<\/p>\n
The USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group of accompanying warships was abruptly redeployed after South\u00a0Korea\u00a0and the US military conducted rare missile drills east of\u00a0North\u00a0Korea. This comes in response to\u00a0North\u00a0Korea’s IRBM launch over Japan this week, one of the allies’ sharpest reactions since 2017 to a\u00a0North\u00a0Korean weapon test.<\/p>\n
The United States accused China and Russia on Wednesday of enabling\u00a0North\u00a0Korean leader Kim Jong Un by blocking attempts to strengthen UN Security Council sanctions on Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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