The United States condemned North Korea’s latest missile tests.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the U.S. condemned the tests and said it would “take all necessary measures to ensure the security of the American homeland” and its allies South Korea and Japan.
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The statement comes after North Korea launched several missiles leading to heightened tensions in the region.
A J-Alert was broadcast to parts of northern Japan on Thursday following an unsuccessful missile launch by North Korea. The warnings were broadcast to residents in several northern prefectures, instructing them to go inside firm buildings or underground, according to the Associated Press.
A South Korean government official Thursday told CNN an intercontinental ballistic missile succeeded in separating at the second stage but is believed to have failed after that, falling into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
The launch is the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests and comes a day after Pyongyang fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day, according to the Associated Press.
Pyongyang demanded the U.S. and South Korea stop large-scale military exercises, saying such “military rashness and provocation can be no longer tolerated,” and said the recent missile launches were in protest of these drills, according to Reuters.
A statement from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says it has “assessed that this missile test does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel, or territory, or to our allies,” but they will continue to “monitor the situation.”
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“This launch, in addition to the launch of multiple other ballistic missiles this week, is a flagrant violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions and needlessly raises tensions and risks destabilizing the security situation in the region,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
