North Korea, which since 2019 has repeatedly declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear state, featured among growing regional threats in a recent Japanese government assessment.
Tokyo’s Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said this week that Japan’s military needs to be boosted with a “sense of urgency and crisis”.
In a statement carried by North Korean state media on Wednesday, Kim Yo-jong – the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong-un – said Pyongyang’s “leadership will set up additional military options which are obviously due to Japan’s transformation”.
On Thursday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that “our military detected one short-range ballistic missile launched from the Wonsan area of North Korea at around 5pm”.
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