South Korea's Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the projectile took off on Sunday afternoon, (07.59GMT) from a location near Pukchang. <\/p>\n
The office did not give further details, but Japan later confirmed it as a medium range ballistic missile test. <\/p>\n
The White House said that it is aware of this latest North Korea missile launch and notes that this system has a shorter range than the missiles launched in North Koreas three most recent tests. <\/p>\n
Japan has said that the country strongly protests North Korea and calls the missile launch intolerable and a clear violation of UN resolution. <\/p>\n
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The Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference that the missile was launched around 7:59 GMT from North Koreas west coast towards the Sea of Japan and it probably landed outside Japans exclusive economic zone, without causing damages to ships and aeroplanes. <\/p>\n
A week ago,North Koreatested another missile, which it said was capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead. <\/p>\n
Pukchang is an area where Pyongyang attempted to test-launch another missile last month, but failed. <\/p>\n
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North Korea has defied any calls to decrease its nuclear and missile programmes, even from its only ally, China. <\/p>\n
Yesterday analysts revealed that Pyongyang has launched a ballistic missile, which has re-entered the Earths atmosphere. <\/p>\n
North Korea see this as a significant breakthrough for the state. <\/p>\n
Donald Trump has pledged to place stronger economic and diplomatic sanctions on the hermit kingdom as it scrambles to build nuclear weapons. <\/p>\n
North Korea has announced that the US is within strike range. <\/p>\n
On Saturday, North Koreas state KCNA news agency said: Today the U.S. mainland and the Pacific operational theatre are within the strike range of the DPRK and the DPRK has all kinds of powerful means for annihilating retaliatory strike. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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The country regularly tests its short-range missiles and wants to develop ones that can reach the United States. <\/p>\n
Last week, the UN Security Council again demanded that Pyongyang conduct no further such tests. <\/p>\n
However all of North Koreas nuclear tests are in defiance of UN sanctions. <\/p>\n
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