North Korea’s ‘flying object’ falls into ocean — Japan

TOKYO — Japan’s defense minister said Friday that North Korea had launched a “flying object” that fell into the ocean after a short flight.

“We have the information some sort of flying object had been launched from North Korea” around 7:40 a.m. (2240 GMT Thursday), Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka told reporters.

“The flying object is believed to have flown for more than one minute and fallen into the ocean. This does not affect our country’s territory at all.”