{"id":1441941,"date":"2026-09-20T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/north-korea-launches-ballistic-missiles-towards-japan-twice-in-a-day\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:54:05","slug":"north-korea-launches-ballistic-missiles-towards-japan-twice-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/north-korea-launches-ballistic-missiles-towards-japan-twice-in-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea launches ballistic missiles towards Japan twice in a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North Korea launched two ballistic missiles from the country&#8217;s east coast on September 20. The missiles flew approximately 450 km and more than 600 km towards the East Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/20\/asia\/north-korea-missile-test-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> The first launch of the short-range Hwasong-11 missile was recorded at around 3:00 p.m. from the Wonsan area. Three hours later, the DPRK carried out a second launch.<\/p>\n<p> The launches were monitored by intelligence services from South Korea, the United States and Japan. South Korea&#8217;s National Security Council called on Pyongyang to stop the missile tests, calling them a violation of UN Security Council resolutions.<\/p>\n<p> Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said that North Korea&#8217;s actions pose a threat to the peace and security of Japan, the region, and the international community.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-kndr-pryhrozyly-iadernoiu-zbroieiu-ssha-ta-pivdenniy-korei-u-chomu-prychyna\/\">North Korea has previously said it could resort to nuclear retaliation if the US and South Korea<\/a> consider it a threat to its security. Pyongyang called Washington and Seoul&#8217;s decision to strengthen their deterrence system against North Korea a critical security challenge.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea launched two ballistic missiles from the country&#8217;s east coast on September 20. The missiles flew approximately 450 km and more than 600 km towards the East Sea. This is reported by CNN . The first launch of the short-range Hwasong-11 missile was recorded at around 3:00 p.m. from the Wonsan area. Three hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1081691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1441941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}