Kim Ill fires missle at Japan

Washington D.C. [U.S.], Feb. 12 (ANI): After Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned the missile launched by North Korea, U.S. President Donald trump has re-instated his support for Japan, as reported by CNN.

Earlier today, in a joint statement with President Trump that was released from the latter's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Prime Minister Abe expressed his dissent over the missile launch, deeming it to be 'absolutely intolerable'.

Post this remark, President Trump reacted to the same, extending full support to Japan. "I just want everybody to understand and fully know that The United States of America is behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent", assured Trump.

TOKYO (Sputnik) — "Our government, in tandem with the international community, is doing its best to ensure a corresponding response to punish the North," Hwang Kyo-ahn said, as quoted by the Yonhap news agency.

A ballistic missile was launched early Sunday from an airbase in the North Pyongan province. It travelled around 300 miles before plunging into the Sea of Japan.

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US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke by phone Thursday evening, the first conversation between the two since Trump took office.

The missile launch was quickly condemned by South Korea, as well as France, Russia and Italy.

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After an emergency meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Sunday, members of the Security Council accused North Korea of defying repeated warnings with an action that constitutes "a clear threat to international peace and security

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the launch was "deeply deplorable," carried out "despite the united plea of the international community against such an act."

The denunciations were accompanied by other signals that the fallout in the region may go beyond diplomatic measures.

The United States and South Korea signaled new interest in exploring the installation of a sophisticated US antimissile system - a step that Seoul previously had resisted under pressure from China.

South Korean and US military officials said on Sunday that they had agreed to begin negotiations for the "earliest possible" deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system that uses ground-based launchers to shoot down missiles.

"North Korea continues to develop their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, and it is the responsibility of our alliance to maintain a strong defense against those threats," General Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of US Forces Korea, said in a statement. "THAAD can add an important capability."

Missile experts said the THAAD system is regarded as an effective defense against short- and medium-range missiles, meaning it could protect South Korea from attack but would be of little use against long-range strikes, such as a missile aimed at the United States.

The renewed discussions of deploying the THAAD system reflect rising anxiety in South Korea, where leaders may be less inclined to comply with warnings from China or trust Beijing's assertions that it can keep North Korea in check.

"It would appear that South Korea has had enough," said Thomas Karako, head of the Missile Defense Project at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

South Korea's reluctance to allow the missile defense system "has everything to do with the politics and pressure that China has been putting on its southern neighbor," Mr Karako said. But the back-to-back nuclear test and satellite launch by the North is likely to drive the United States and South Korea "much closer together and further mute the effect of Chinese objections

source Sidney Morning Herald.

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KIM 

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they Just green lighted vaporize PONG YANG.....