North Korea confirmed it had carried out a missile test in the early hours of Thursday, announcing that it was a "new type of tactical guided missile".
"This test launch was quite successful, as we expected," reported a North Korean official, relaunched by the state media, adding that "the development of this system is of great importance in strengthening our military power and arresting all types. of military threats existing on the Korean peninsula ".
The Tokyo government in the past few hours had announced that the North Koreans had tested "two unidentified bullets" in the Sea of Japan. And today, US President Joe Biden, in his first press conference, warned the Kim Jong-un regime that "there will be an answer if Pyongyang chooses an escalation". He added that he was "also ready for some form of diplomacy, on condition of denuclearization".