The unidentified projectile was launched into the East Sea on Tuesday, reports have found. The Japanese Defense Ministry has said that a ballistic weapon appeared to be launched, but no further details are immediately available from the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The latest projectile firing comes after both North and South Korea conducted a ballistic missile test on September 15, just hours apart from each other.
The North fired two ballistic missiles across its East coast, which was the first test of such missiles in six months.
Earlier this month, the ballistic missile test conducted by North Korea was fired into Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga slammed the missile test as “outrageous”.
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North Korea told the UN the North has the “right” to test weapons just after South Korea’s military said North Korea had fired an unidentified projectile towards the sea off its East coast.
The North’s ambassador to the United Nations, Kim Song, called on the US to ditch the “hostile policy” towards Pyongyang.
“Nobody can deny the righteous right to self-defense for the DPRK to develop, test, manufacture, and possess the weapon systems, equivalent to the ones which are possessed or being developed by them,” Kim said, referring to the United States and South Korea, and using the acronym for North Korea’s official name.
“We are just building up our national defense in order to defend ourselves and reliably safeguard the security and peace of the country.”