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North Korea launches ballistic missile over Japan – as it happened by OfusTrend: 6:32am On Sep 15, 2017 |
What happened? North Korea has launched another missile over Japan, a day after it threatened to “sink” the country and turn the US “into ashes and darkness”. The missile – which was fired from Sunan, just north of Pyongyang, on Friday morning at 6.57am Japanese local time (21.57 GMT Thursday) – flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido before landing, 20 minutes after launch, in the Pacific Ocean, 2,200km east of Cape Erimo. The US and South Korea said they believed it to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile, although the Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono said it could be an intercontinental ballistic missile, which has a significantly greater range and which Pyongyang claimed to have tested successfully in July. Friday’s launch was the longest-ever such flight carried out by the rogue regime, and travelled 3,700km – 800km further than the previous launch over Japan, in August. The US Pacific territory of Guam, which Kim Jong-un has threatened to attack, is 3,400km from North Korea. But the US military said the direction of the missile meant the island was not at risk. Experts said it was likely to be another Hwasong-12 missile, as used in the August test. People living in regions near the missile flight path in Hokkaido received two text alerts on Friday morning, the first warning them to seek shelter, and the second giving an all-clear. The reaction The United Nations security council will hold an emergency meeting on Friday; just days ago it approved tougher sanctions against the regime. The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, slammed the launch as “utterly unacceptable”:
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Re: North Korea launches ballistic missile over Japan – as it happened by Ifeanyi4491(m): 6:36am On Sep 15, 2017 |
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Re: North Korea launches ballistic missile over Japan – as it happened by Jetjacky(m): 6:47am On Sep 15, 2017 |
Let them continue to play with bombs. The time is coming when they will see the rrsults: I'm referring to USA Japan South Korea and North Korea. Them bigger better job to do. Yeye people. |
Re: North Korea launches ballistic missile over Japan – as it happened by bewla(m): 7:14am On Sep 15, 2017 |
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