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North Korea Launches Test Missile Towards Japan

12/02/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, North Korea Launches Test Missile Towards Japan

The ballistic missile was fired just as the US and Japanese leaders were meeting

The US Pentagon confirms it tracked the test launch of what it said was a medium or intermediate-range missile fired by North Korea into the Sea of Japan. The Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who's on a visit to the United States, condemned the missile launch as "intolerable". US President Donald Trump pledged his country's "100%" support for Japan.

(Photo: a woman in Seoul walks past a television screen showing file footage of North Korea's missile launch. Credit: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images)

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