{"id":354455,"date":"2026-08-11T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/north-korea-launches-a-suspected-ballistic-missile-japans-says"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:47:13","slug":"north-korea-launches-a-suspected-ballistic-missile-japans-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/north-korea-launches-a-suspected-ballistic-missile-japans-says","title":{"rendered":"North Korea launches a suspected ballistic missile, Japan\u2019s says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">SEOUL, South Korea &#8212; <\/span>SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> fired a possible ballistic missile toward the sea on Wednesday, Japan\u2019s Defense Ministry said, the second such weapons launch in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Defense Ministry said the suspected weapon has landed in the waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Yonhap news agency, citing South Korea\u2019s military, reported that North Korea fired an unidentified projectile off North Korea\u2019s east coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The reported launch came two days after South Korea and the United States said they will kick off their annual large-scale military drills next week to beef up readiness against North Korean threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The drills, called <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-korea-us-drills-ulchi-freedom-shield-north-korea-7c938649e2e18bae5fc781a9e98223c4\">Ulchi Freedom Shield<\/a>, were expected to draw an angry response from North Korea, because the country views the training as a rehearsal to invade it. North Korea has previously responded to major South Korean-U.S. military drills with provocative weapons tests and harsh rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Last week, South Korea, the U.S. and Japan detected the launch of a short-range ballistic missile from North Korea in what was the North\u2019s first ballistic weapons testing activity since late June. North Korea didn\u2019t confirm the reported launch, though it usually releases details of weapons tests a day after. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/north-korea-launches-suspected-ballistic-missile-japans-135558919\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, South Korea &#8212; SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 North Korea fired a possible ballistic missile toward the sea on Wednesday, Japan\u2019s Defense Ministry said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,30887,12287,30885,30889,14681,4254,3458,30886,30888,173],"class_list":["post-354455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan","tag-japans-protection-ministry","tag-north-korea","tag-north-koreas-east-coast","tag-nuclear-program-of-north-korea","tag-protection-ministry","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea","tag-south-korean-u-s-navy","tag-south-koreas-navy","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354457,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354455\/revisions\/354457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}