Japan's chief cabinet secretary says North Korea projectile landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone.
A North Korean missile appears to have fallen into Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone Wednesday morning, Japan's top government spokesman said.Kim Jong Un is seen as the newly developed intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-15 was successfully launched.North Korea carried out another projectile launch on Wednesday, the South Korean military and Japan's Coast Guard said, a day after North Korea announced it will hold working-level talks with the United States at the weekend.
Japan's Coast Guard said in a statement North Korea had launched what appeared to be a missile and urged vessels to pay attention to further information and not to approach any debris. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that particular missile fell at 7:27 a.m. local time, or 2227 GMT, while another one a few minutes earlier fell outside of Japan's EEZ.
It came just a day after Pyongyang announced it had agreed with the United States to hold working-level talks on Saturday, a development that could potentially break months of stalemate.
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