OUR North Korea notified her Japan The Japan Coast Guard announced today that it will launch a satellite in the coming weeks. The plan will include ballistic missile testing, according to the Japanese government.

Pyongyang has told the Japanese Coast Guard that the missile will be launched between May 31 and June 11 and is expected to land in waters near the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the Philippine island of Luzon, a Coast Guard official told AFP.

The office of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, on the other hand, said that instructions had been given on the matter of “notifying North Korea of ​​a ballistic missile launch.”

Mr. Kishida ordered relevant ministries and departments to gather information, be vigilant, and work closely with the country’s allies, especially the United States and South Korea, Mr. Kishida’s Twitter service said.

Since last year, Pyongyang has increased the number of ballistic missile test launches, some of which have caused alarm in the Japanese archipelago.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense, for its part, announced that it has ordered preparations to destroy any missile that threatens Japanese territory, using either SM-3 anti-aircraft missiles or the Patriot system.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP, Reuters.}