2023-05-31 00:33:45
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An alert message was issued for citizens to prepare for a possible evacuation.
30/5/2023
North Korea sent a few minutes ago what it described as a “space launch vehicle”, as announced by the South Korean Army, which led the Seoul authorities to issue an alert to prepare the population in case an evacuation was required.
The South Korean presidency has subsequently called a security meeting to discuss the launch of the North Korean missile, noting that “a meeting will be held soon to verify the security situation”.
For its part, the Japanese government issued an emergency warning through its J-Alert broadcast system for residents of the southern Okinawa prefecture in the morning, saying that a missile had been launched from North Korea. The alert would have been deactivated following a while.
“Sirens were heard in Seoul around 6:32 a.m. (2132 GMT Tuesday) when the city issued a warning. asking citizens to prepare for a possible evacuation”the agency said Archyde.com.
“Missile launch. Missile launch. North Korea appears to have launched a missile. Please take shelter inside buildings or underground”, indicated the alert published on Twitter by the office of the prime minister and transmitted by the national network NHK.
The missile launch alert was timely notified to the air control towers of nearby countries such as Japan and China.
But regarding 30 minutes later, the government tweeted that the alert was cancelled.
“It is expected that the previously reported missile will not reach Japan. The call for evacuation was lifted,” the government said on Twitter.
Japan has activated its missile alert alarms on several previous occasions in response to launches from Pyongyang, although they are usually lifted shortly following.
For their part, the United States authorities had warned that the imminent launch by North Korea of a satellite would be a “violation” of United Nations Security Council resolutions, which prohibit the country from carrying out long-range ballistic tests. scope.
The State Department of the North American country has indicated that any launch from South Korea that makes use of “ballistic technology, something that would occur if a satellite was launched into space, violates multiple UN resolutions”.
The Japanese government was notified of Pyongyang’s plans to launch the satellite in June. The launch comes following an unprecedented number of ballistic tests by North Korea.which has carried out 69 such trials in 2022.
For their part, South Korea and Japan have held their first bilateral meetings in five years on disarmament and non-proliferation, Urging the North Korean authorities to cancel the launch of a military reconnaissance satellite.
The South Korean nuclear non-proliferation director general, Park Young Hyo, met yesterday Monday on Jeju Island with his Japanese counterpart, Atsushi Kaifu, in which both expressed their concern regarding the greater nuclear threat from North Korea following the announcement of a plan to launch the spy satellite in the coming weeks.
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