President convenes security situation review meeting on North Korea's ballistic missile launch

North Korea Launches SRBM During Kim Jong-un's Visit to Russia

The Presidential Office convened a security situation review meeting on the 13th in response to North Korea's short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) provocation.

According to the Presidential Office, Kim Tae-hyo, the First Deputy Director of the National Security Office, held the security situation review meeting to receive related reports from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to assess the security situation and the readiness posture of our military.

Earlier, the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that our military detected two SRBMs launched by North Korea around 11:43 a.m. and 11:53 a.m. respectively from the Pyongyang Sunan area toward the East Sea. Both missiles flew approximately 650 km before falling into the East Sea.

The Japanese government also announced that the two ballistic missiles launched by North Korea appeared to have fallen outside Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). In particular, the second missile is estimated to have flown about 650 km with a maximum altitude of 50 km and possibly followed an irregular trajectory.

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It is observed that the approximately 650 km distance southward from the Pyongyang Sunan International Airport area, which North Korea has recently used as a ballistic missile test launch site, reaches Jeju Island, demonstrating that the entire Korean Peninsula is within the range of North Korean missiles.

Additionally, the fact that North Korea launched missiles while its supreme leader was abroad is interpreted as an intention to showcase military readiness. Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, is holding a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia, on the same day.

South Korean and U.S. intelligence agencies are currently conducting a comprehensive and precise analysis of the exact specifications of the ballistic missiles launched by North Korea, including their speed, peak altitude, and type.

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