Overview
- North Korea launched several short-range ballistic missiles early Sunday from the Sinpo area at about 6:10 a.m. local time, with flights of roughly 140 kilometers toward the East Sea.
- Japan said the missiles fell near North Korea’s east coast with no confirmed entry into Japan’s exclusive economic zone and no reports of harm to ships or aircraft.
- South Korea convened an emergency National Security Council meeting and is sharing data with the United States and Japan while analyzing whether a submarine-launched ballistic missile system was used.
- U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said the event poses no immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory and reaffirmed commitments to defend the homeland and regional allies.
- The launches violate U.N. Security Council bans and follow an IAEA finding of a rapid increase in North Korea’s nuclear production activity, in what officials count as the seventh ballistic launch this year and the fourth in April.