North Korea Tells Japan It Plans to Launch Satellite in the Coming Days

A North Korean flag flutters at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, in South Korea on July 19, 2022. Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/Reuters

TOKYO—North Korea has notified Japan of its plan to launch a rocket carrying a space satellite between Nov. 22 and Dec. 1 in the direction of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, Japan’s Coast Guard said on Tuesday.

If carried out, it would mark a third attempt by the nuclear-armed state this year to put a spy satellite into orbit.