North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile, less than a week after it launched what it claimed was a hypersonic missile.
South Korea said it detected the launch at 07:27 local time on Tuesday (22:27 GMT on Monday).
Japan’s coast guard also reported the launch, saying North Korea had fired a “ballistic missile-like object”.
It comes shortly after six countries issued a statement urging the North to cease its “destabilising actions”.
“Our military detected a suspected ballistic missile fired by North Korea from land towards the East Sea,” South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) said, adding that intelligence authorities from South Korea and the US were in the process of conducting a detailed analysis.
–BBC