North Korea has test-fired a ballistic
missile from a submarine but it failed in its initial flight stage,
South Korea’s military said.
It said the missile was launched in waters east of the Korean peninsula – the latest in a recent series of tests.
It comes less than three months after a previous attempt to launch a missile from a submarine failed, the BBC reports.
North Korea, believed to be developing nuclear weapons, is banned by the United Nations from any use of ballistic missiles.
“The SLBM (submarine-launched ballistic
missile) was ejected from the submarine normally, but is estimated the
initial flight was unsuccessful,” the BBC quoted the South Korean
military as saying in a statement.
“Our military strongly denounces such provocative acts by North Korea,” it added.
The missile had been launched at about 11:30 local time (02:30 GMT) off North Korea’s port of Sinpo.
The United States and South Korea on Friday agreed to deploy a missile defence system to counter threats from Pyongyang.
It remains unclear exactly where the
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system will be
sited and who will have final control.
Credit: Nation
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