(ANSA) - BEIJING, MARCH 24 - North Korea has tested an intercontinental ballistic missile: South Korean President Moon Jae-in made it known, expressing disappointment at the meeting of the National Security Council, "for the violation of the self-imposed moratorium by Pyongyang "suitest and UN resolutions.
The Northern move falls on the day in which NATO meets in Brussels with US President Joe Biden and with the unusual presence of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose Defense Minister said the missile would have fallen about 170km off the coast of Aomori, in the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
The new provocation of the North Korean regime comes close to an important date, that of April 15, which celebrates the 110th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the state, Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the current leader Kim Jong Un.
South Korea has carried out a cycle of "strategic" missile launches from land, sea and air in response to North Korea's afternoon test of the ICBV, the most powerful since 2017, reports the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul .
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