{"id":72397,"date":"2026-08-11T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/72397\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:44:14","slug":"north-korea-fires-off-second-missile-in-less-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/72397\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires off second missile in less than a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korea launched an apparent ballistic missile early Wednesday\u00a0 \u2014 Pyongyang\u2019s second in less than a week \u2014 with the weapon believed to have fallen outside Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).<\/p>\n

The Defense Ministry in Tokyo said it had not confirmed that the missile had fallen inside Japan\u2019s EEZ, an area that extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from its shores.<\/p>\n

The South Korean military also confirmed the launch, saying the missile had been fired eastward.<\/p>\n

The launch followed Pyongyang\u2019s test of a ballistic missile last week<\/a> in a show of force, a day after saying it would pursue unspecified \u201cadditional military options\u201d in response to Japan\u2019s growing defense capabilities.<\/p>\n

That launch was the North\u2019s first since leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the tests of a tactical ballistic missile as well as new multiple rocket launchers and other weapons on June 25.<\/p>\n

Kim\u2019s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, said Aug. 5 that Pyongyang would not remain a \u201cpassive onlooker\u201d to what she described as Japan\u2019s accelerating transformation into a military power, state-run media reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWar criminal state Japan\u2019s possession of the capability for preemptive attack is a grave threat destroying global peace and security,\u201d she said, referring to Tokyo\u2019s efforts to acquire long-range strike capabilities, including a recent test of Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles from a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer.<\/p>\n

Tokyo said North Korea\u2019s military activities \u201cpose an even more grave and imminent threat to Japan\u2019s national security than ever before\u201d in its annual defense white paper<\/a> released Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korea launched an apparent ballistic missile early Wednesday\u00a0 \u2014 Pyongyang\u2019s second in less than a week \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,1919,6831,33,1922,2909],"class_list":["post-72397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-japan","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-missiles","tag-nihon","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}