The Japanese government considers North Korea’s launch of a carrier rocket a violation of a UN Security Council resolution and has expressed strong protest against Pyongyang in connection with it. Hirokazu Matsuno, Secretary General of the Japanese Council of Ministers, said this. TASS.
According to Matsuno, such actions by Pyongyang threaten the peace and stability of Japan as well as the international community.
Matsuno said that according to preliminary data, the flight path of the North Korean missile did not pass through Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
Earlier, North Korea reportedly admitted to launching missiles. failed. As can be seen from the material of the North Korean news agency, when sending the Manningyon-1 military reconnaissance satellite into space, a problem arose at the stage of starting the engine of the second stage of the new Chollima-1 launch vehicle. After the separation of the first stage, the engine of the second stage did not operate normally, as a result of which the rocket lost its driving power and fell into the Yellow Sea.