Anchor: North Korea has fired another ballistic missile toward the East Sea. The missile flew around 450 kilometers before dropping in the Japanese exclusive economic zone. The move marked the North's third ballistic missile launch since the inauguration of President Moon Jae-in in South Korea earlier this month.
Kim Bum-soo has more. 
 
Report: The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) said that the launch took place at 5:39 a.m. on Monday at a location near the eastern coastal city of Wonsan in Gangwon Province. 
 
The JCS said that the projectile appeared to be a variation of short-range Scud missile.
 
The missile flew around 450 kilometers in about six minutes.  
 
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that the projectile dropped in the Japanese exclusive economic zone.
 
The South Korean National Security Council held an emergency session at 7.30 a.m to discuss the North's third ballistic missile launch since the inauguration of President Moon Jae-in in South Korea.
 
The launch comes eight days after North Korea fired a Pukguksong-2 medium-range ballistic missile(MRBM). Just a week before the test launch, North Korea fired a Hwasong-12 strategic missile. On Saturday, it test launched a KN-06 surface-to-air missile.
 
The South Korean Foreign Ministry issued a statement, pointing out that the latest launch marked the ninth test firing of a ballistic missile by the North just this year alone.
 
The statement said the North is refusing the international community's unified will for the denuclearization, reaffirmed through the final statement of the G7 Summit.

The G7 member nations released a statement on Saturday, following the two-day summit held in Italy. It said that North Korea poses a threat to international peace and warned of tougher measures unless Pyongyang abandons its nuclear program.
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News. 
 
 

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