{"id":410394,"date":"2022-01-30T06:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410394"},"modified":"2022-01-30T06:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:07:55","slug":"north-korea-missile-tests-biggest-launch-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/north-korea-missile-tests-biggest-launch-since-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea missile tests: Biggest launch since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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North Korea has conducted what is thought to be its biggest missile launch since 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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South Korea reported that the launch took place at 07:52 local time on Sunday (22:52 GMT) off North Korea’s east coast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Japan, South Korea and the US have all condemned the launch, the seventh test this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The UN prohibits North Korea from ballistic and nuclear weapons tests, and has imposed strict sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But the East Asian state regularly defies the ban, and leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to bolster his country’s defences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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South Korea’s National Security Council said Sunday’s test was an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), which would be the biggest missile tested since November 2017.<\/p>\n

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Japanese and South Korean officials estimated that the missile reached an altitude of 2,000km (1240 miles) and flew for 30 minutes to a distance of 800km (500 miles). It landed in the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The United States called on North Korea to “refrain from further destabilising acts”, in a statement issued by the US military’s Indo-Pacific Command.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Korea has conducted what is thought to be its biggest missile launch since 2017. South Korea reported that the launch took place at 07:52 local time on Sunday (22:52 GMT) off North Korea’s east coast. Japan, South Korea and the US have all condemned the launch, the seventh test this month. The UN prohibits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":410395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410396,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410394\/revisions\/410396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}