MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan in 'Unprecedented' Act
By artappraiser on Mon, 08/28/2017 - 11:35pm |By Lily Nonomiya, Andy Sharp & Colin Keatinge @ Bloomberg.com, updated Aug 28, 9:36 PM EDT
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Missile landed in Pacific Ocean off coast of Hokkaido
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Japan calls for emergency meeting of UN Security Council
[....] The missile landed about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) off Hokkaido in the Pacific Ocean, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters, adding there were no reports of damage. Japan’s government said it didn’t try to shoot it down.
“A missile passing over Japan is an unprecedented, grave and serious threat,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters in Tokyo. Japan has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency meeting.
Abe said that he agreed with Trump to increase pressure on North Korea following a 40-minute phone call on Tuesday morning. He urged China and Russia to join in taking action against Kim Jong Un’s regime.
[....]Suga said Japan strongly backed the U.S. view that all options were on the table in dealing with North Korea. The Pentagon confirmed the missile flew over Japan [....]
URL:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-28/north-korea-missile-appears-to-have-flown-over-japan-abe-says
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