JAPAN/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan Tuesday [8-29-17], the latest in a string of direct provocations that have destabilized the region and triggered global alarm.
The missile—the first Pyongyang has fired over Japan’s main islands since 2009—prompted a fiery response from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…
Mr. Abe called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. He said he spoke by phone with President Donald Trump for 40 minutes and that the president gave a ‘strong commitment’ to Japan’s security…
President Trump later said that North Korea displayed ‘contempt’ for its neighbors and for the world by firing a ballistic missile over Japan, and said ‘all options are on the table’ in dealing with the threat. ‘The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior,’ Mr. Trump said in a statement released by the White House.
The missile passed over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and landed in the Pacific Ocean about 14 minutes after its launch early Tuesday morning, Japan’s chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said, splashing down in the Pacific 733 miles east of Hokkaido’s Cape Erimo.”
-Jonathan Cheng and Peter Landers, “North Korea Launches Missile Over Japan,” The Wall Street Journal online, Aug. 29, 2017 08:47am