Moscow KremlinMOSCOW, Mar 24 Russian military monitoring North Korean missile launch, important avoid actions that could escalate tensions, said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president. It is important to avoid any actions that could lead to it,» Peskov said. North Korea fired one projectile, presumably a long-range ballistic missile, towards the Sea of Japan on Thursday. 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. .
The White House called the North Korean missile launch a violation of the UN Security Council resolution
