NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR: “North Korea fired a missile over Japan early Friday [9-15-17] local time for the second time in a month, defying rising international efforts to force it to abandon course.
In a rare move, South Korea responded to the launch by immediately conducting a simulated strike of the North Korean launch site, an air base near Pyongyang. In Japan, alerts were sent to smartphones of people living in areas where the missile was projected to pass over soon after the launch was detected. No damage or injuries were reported.
The latest missile launch marked Pyongyang’s latest provocation after the United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously adopted new sanctions against North Korea.
The Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Friday at the request of the U.S. and Japan. A new violation by the North, in response to the adoption of the fresh sanctions, was anticipated, some diplomats said, raising the stakes for finding a diplomatic solution.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for the new sanctions to be fully enforced.”
-Alastair Gale and Kwanwoo Jun, “North Korea Fires Missile in Defiance of U.N. Sanctions,” The Wall Street Journal online, Sept. 14, 2017 10:34pm