{"id":26742,"date":"2016-07-09T06:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/north-korea-test-fires-missile-from-submarine\/"},"modified":"2016-07-09T06:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T06:23:03","slug":"north-korea-test-fires-missile-from-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/north-korea-test-fires-missile-from-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea test-fires missile from submarine: South"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Alleged launch came after Washington and Seoul deployed an advanced missile system in the South.}<\/p>\n

North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Saturday but the launch appears to have failed in the early stages of flight, South Korea’s military said.<\/p>\n

The launch came a day after the US and South Korea pledged to deploy an anti-missile system and two days after North Korea warned it was planning a tough response to what it called a “declaration of war” from the United States. <\/p>\n

That followed Washington slapping sanctions on the nation’s leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missile was launched at about 1130am Seoul time (0230GMT) in waters east of the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera could not indepedently verify the launch. <\/p>\n

The missile was likely fired from the submarine as planned but appears to have failed in the early stage of flight, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.<\/p>\n

‘Means for attack’<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Sohail Rahman, reporting from Tokyo, quoted Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as saying the launch had no major impact on his country’s territorial waters or sovereignty, but that it was a challenge to the international community and resolutions made by the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n

“It comes after a week of intense diplomatic and military activity on the Korean Peninsula,” Rahman said.<\/p>\n

The North has conducted a string of military tests that began in January with its fourth nuclear test and included the launch of a long-range rocket the next month.<\/p>\n

The UN Security Council imposed harsh new sanctions on the country in response to North Korea’s fourth nuclear test and the long-range rocket.<\/p>\n

South Korea and the United States said on Friday they would deploy an advanced missile defence system in South Korea, drawing a sharp and swift protest from neighbouring China, Pyongyang’s sole major ally.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang also conducted a test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in April, calling it a “great success” that provided “one more means for powerful nuclear attack”.<\/p>\n

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