North Korea launches anti-aircraft missile into the sea

                                     
Missile flew about 100 kilometers way to the sea, said the General Staff together the Republic of Korea Armed Forces


North Korea launched on Friday (1) an anti-aircraft missile into the East Sea (Sea of ​​Japan), reported the South Korean military, a new arms exercise the communist regime after its nuclear and missile tests of earlier this year.

The missile was launched around 12:15 local (0h15 GMT), a platform in the northeast Asian country, and flew about 100 kilometers to fall into the sea, said the General Staff together the Republic of Korea Armed Forces to local agency "Yonhap".

The Ministry of South Korean Defense is considering at the moment the trajectory of the projectile, as indicated Efe a spokesman, that for now, declined to offer more details.

This is the sixth release of this kind in a month, since North Korea fired missiles and short and medium-range missiles on five occasions in March alone.

The new North Korean weapons test comes at a time of tension on the Korean peninsula after Pyongyang carried out its fourth nuclear test in early January and the launch of a space rocket in February, which was considered a covert missile test.

The UN Security Council endorsed these two stocks with strong financial and trade sanctions on Kim Jong-un regime. Moreover, the USA, South Korea and Japan have dictated additional punitive measures unilaterally.

Seoul and Washington are doing at this time in South Korean territory, its biggest military maneuvers so far, which will by the end of April and with the participation of 17,000 US troops and 300,000 South Koreans.


In response to the sanctions and maneuvers, considering a "test for the invasion" of his country, North Korea made several threats of war and conducted missile launches short and medium range to the sea, the last of them today.