The Japanese government also announced that North Korea may have launched a ballistic missile and that it likely fell outside Japan's exclusive economic zone. The South Korean military said the unidentified type of missile was launched from a North Korean area near the Chinese border on the northwest, heading east toward the sea. South Korea and Japan said on Friday that North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea off the country's east coast, following missile launches over the past two weeks and amid renewed calls from U.S. President Donald Trump for talks with Pyongyang. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stated:
