South Korean Ministry of National Defense: North Korea's missile launch is an obvious provocation...immediately suspended.

On the 15th, South Korea's Ministry of National Defense (equivalent to the Ministry of Defense) condemned North Korea's launch the previous day of a ``medium-to-long-range solid-fuel ballistic missile'' equipped with a hypersonic warhead.
In connection with North Korea's ballistic missile launch, the Ministry of National Defense issued a statement from the South Korean military stating, ``North Korea yesterday equipped a hypersonic warhead.
"He claimed to have launched a medium-to-long-range solid-fuel ballistic missile that was capable of carrying out the attack," the statement said, adding, "This is a clear provocative act that violates United Nations Security Council resolutions prohibiting the use of ballistic missile technology."
Additionally, ``The South Korean military is increasing its joint US-South Korea extended deterrence execution capabilities in order to suppress and respond to various missile threats from North Korea, and is strengthening independent response capabilities such as the South Korean three-axis system.''
I made it. ``The South Korean military is closely monitoring North Korea's various activities under a robust U.S.-South Korea joint defense posture,'' and added, ``In the unlikely event that North Korea makes a direct provocation against our country, we will Immediately
・We will respond overwhelmingly based on the principle of 'strong, strong, and final' (immediately, forcefully, to the end)." Today North Korea tested a hypersonic medium- and long-range ballistic missile using a new solid-fuel propellant.
It was claimed that the launch was successful yesterday. Approximately two months after it was announced in November last year that it had developed a high-power solid fuel engine for an intermediate-range ballistic missile and had successfully conducted a ground injection test of the first and second stage engines.
It appears that it was applied to a hypersonic missile and fired. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile from the Pyongyang area over Donghae (East Sea, Sea of Japan) at around 2:55 p.m. yesterday.
A missile was fired, and the missile flew approximately 1,000 kilometers before falling into the Sea of Japan.