10 November 2021
Tokyo retracts claim North Korea test-launched two ballistic missiles on 19 October
by Kosuke Takahashi
The Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) has retracted its initial claim that North Korea test-launched two ballistic missiles rather than one on 19 October, saying that a radar system mistook a manmade object in space for a ballistic missile.
The assertion that there had been two launches contradicted not only reports by Pyongyang's state-run media but also analysis by the United States and South Korea, both of which only mentioned a single ballistic missile launch.
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