Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he would do all in his power to protect the Japanese public after a North Korean missile passed over the north of the country.
"We will make utmost efforts to firmly protect the lives of the people," Mr Abe told reporters in brief remarks as he entered his office for emergency meetings on the missile firing.
The Japanese government confirmed that a North Korean ballistic passed over the island of Hokkaido in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The Japanese military did not attempt to shoot down the missile, which passed over Japanese territory at around 6.06am local time (10.06pm Irish time).
NHK has reported that the missile broke into three pieces and landed in the sea off Hokkaido, the northernmost of the main Japanese islands.
[rte.ie]
29/8/17
GR
FR
DE
ES
IT
RU
EU
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a ballistic missile flying some 2,700 kilometers Tuesday morning, the South Korean military said.
ReplyDeleteThe missile was launched eastward from a site near Sunan in Pyongyang at around 5:57 a.m. (local time), local media cited the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as saying.
It flew some 2,700 kilometers at a maximum altitude of around 550 km, passing through the sky over Japan before falling into the North Pacific Ocean, the JCS added.
South Korean presidential house has immediately convened a National Security Council meeting, according the local media.
globaltimes.cn
29/8/17
Demonstrating its “overwhelming” military force to North Korea, South Korea conducted bombing drills just hours after Pyongyang launched what appeared to be an intermediate range ballistic missile that reportedly fell in Japanese waters.
ReplyDeleteThe show of force, ordered by South Korean president Moon Jae-in, involved four F15K fighter jets dropping MK84 multipurpose bombs on a shooting range near the inter-Korean border in Taebaek, the presidential press secretary told reporters, according to Yonhap.
RT.COM
29/8/17
Japan, South Korea and the United States have officially requested holding an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over the latest North Korea's ballistic missile launch, a diplomatic source from one of the UNSC member states told Sputnik Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteThe date and time of the meeting have not yet been officially confirmed by rotating UNSC President Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta.
Sputnik
29/8/17