North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Into Sea, Say South Korea And Japan

<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong> North Korea on Sunday morning fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea&rsquo;s Yonhap news agency reported citing South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), according to Reuters.</p> <p>The Japan Coast Guard also confirmed that what was fired by North Korea could be a ballistic missile.</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-68 p Component-p-0-2-59">Further launch details were not immediately available, the news agency Associated Press reported.</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-68 p Component-p-0-2-59">The North on Thursday fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan, hours before South Korea's president flew to Tokyo for a summit that discussed ways to counter the nuclear-armed North.</p> <p>After the launch of the missile on Thursday, North Korea confirmed they had fired it, adding that it was a &ldquo;stronger warning&rdquo; to the US and South Korea for their provocative and aggressive large-scale war drills.</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-68 p Component-p-0-2-59">The launch would be the North&rsquo;s fourth round of weapons tests since the U.S. and South Korean militaries began joint military drills last week, according to AP.</p> <p>In the state news agency, KCNA, North Korea said, &ldquo;Under the grave situation in which the most unstable security environment is being created in the Korean peninsula due to the frantic, provocative and aggressive large-scale war drills conducted by the US and the south Korean puppet traitors against the DPRK, the Central Military Commission of the Workers&rsquo; Party of Korea (WPK) saw to it that a launching drill of the ICBM Hwasongpho-17 was conducted on March 16.&rdquo;</p> <p>South Korean and American forces are conducting 11-day joint military drills, called "Freedom Shield 23."&nbsp;</p> <p>Meanwhile, North Korea claimed that about 800,000 civilians have volunteered to join the nation&rsquo;s military to fight against the US, ANI reported citing CNN.</p> <p>North Korea&rsquo;s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported that around 800,000 students and workers alone have expressed their desire to join the military to counter the US.</p> <p><em><strong>(Wit agency inputs)</strong></em></p>

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