North Korea launches missile over Japan, prompting evacuation warnings: Tokyo

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North Korea launches missile over Japan, prompting evacuation warnings: Tokyo

Mid-range ballistic missile Pyongyang’s first to fly over Japanese territory since 2017

Colin Zwirko | Ifang Bremer | Jeongmin Kim October 4, 2022

North Korea launches missile over Japan, prompting evacuation warnings: Tokyo

An earlier Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile launch from Jan. 2022 | Image: Rodong Sinmun (Jan. 31, 2022)

(Last updated on Oct. 5 at 6:22 a.m. KST to add that North Korean state media did not report on the test as of the following day, Wednesday.)

North Korea launched one ballistic missile over Japan and into the Pacific ocean on Tuesday morning, according to the Prime Minister’s office of Japan, prompting Tokyo to issue evacuation warnings.

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Colin Zwirko

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Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.

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Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.

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