The White House, USAWASHINGTON, Mar 24The White House has called the North Korean missile launch a violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions and an unnecessary escalation of tensions in the region. US President Joe Biden and his national security team are assessing the situation in close coordination with allies since Thursday's launch. The White House expects North Korea's future will carry out new launches. «This launch is a flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions, unnecessarily heightening tensions and the risk of destabilizing the security situation in the region,» White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. The White House also believes that «North Korea continues to put the interests of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile program ahead of its people.»Seoul conducted its own tests in response to North Korea's missile launchNorth Korea fired one projectile into the Sea of Japan on Thursday, believed to be a long-range ballistic missile. It is reported that the launch was made at a higher angle, the South Korean military suggest that the missile was fired «vertically». According to the Yonhap agency, we can talk about a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) of the DPRK «Hwaseong-17». According to the latest information from the Japanese Ministry of Defense, the alleged DPRK missile fell at 15.44 local time (09.44 Moscow time) 150 kilometers west of the Japanese Oshima Peninsula prefecture of Hokkaido. The Japanese military estimated that a ballistic missile allegedly fired by the DPRK was in the air for 71 minutes, covering a distance of 1,100 kilometers and reaching a maximum flight altitude of more than 6,000 kilometers, which significantly exceeds the performance of the Hwaseong-15 ICBM tested in 2017. .
North Korea's missile launches threaten the security of Japan and the world, Kishida said
