Joint air workout routines carried out after Pyongyang launches long-range ballistic missile into the ocean off Japan.

The US has held air workout routines with South Korea and Japan involving strategic bombers, a day after North Korea fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Employees mentioned the workout routines on Sunday demonstrated the allies’ “overwhelming” defence capabilities and readiness.

“[The exercises] strengthened the mixed operation functionality and affirmed the US’ ironclad dedication to the defence of the Korean Peninsula and the implementation of prolonged deterrence,” South Korea’s army mentioned in an announcement.

Japan flew F-15 fighter jets over the Sea of Japan with US B-1 bombers and F-16 fighters, Japan’s defence ministry mentioned in an announcement. It known as the safety atmosphere “more and more extreme” after the newest North Korean missile landed inside its Unique Financial Zone.

The long-range ballistic missile landed within the sea off Japan’s west coast after North Korea warned of a robust response to the deliberate army drills by South Korea and the US.

State information company KCNA mentioned North Korea test-fired a Hwasong-15 from Pyongyang airport on Saturday in what it known as a “shock ICBM launching drill”.

KCNA mentioned the missile flew 989km (615 miles) and travelled for simply over an hour “earlier than precisely hitting the pre-set space in open waters of the East Sea of Korea” – utilizing the North Korean identify for the Sea of Japan.

UN resolutions prohibit North Korea from testing ballistic missiles of any vary, which – relying on their design – will also be outfitted with a nuclear warhead.

It might be the primary check of such a missile in additional than a month.

The check was condemned “within the strongest phrases” by the Group of Seven, the group of the main seven world economies.

An announcement launched after a gathering of G7 overseas ministers on the Munich Safety Convention known as the assault a “blatant violation” of UN Safety Council resolutions.