BALLISTIC MISSILE LANDS IN JAPANESE ECONOMIC ZONE

North Korea on Monday fired an apparent ballistic missile off its east coast that landed in the waters of Japan’s economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials said, the latest in a string of recent test launches as the North seeks to build nuclear-tipped ICBMs that can reach the U.S. mainland. A statement by the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch came from around the eastern North Korean coastal town of Wonsan. The agency added that the suspected Scud-type ballistic missile flew about 450 kilometres. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said what appeared to be a missile fell within Japan’s exclusive maritime economic zone.