North Korea Test-Fires First Missile Under a Trump Presidency
South Korean defense officials and the U.S. Strategic Command say North Korea test-fired a “medium- or intermediate-range” ballistic missile early Sunday morning local time, which flew eastward for about 300 miles from the west coast of North Korea, over the peninsula and landed in the Sea of Japan. This marks the first missile test by the Kim Jong Un regime since October, and the first under the new Donald Trump presidency.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, appearing in a hastily arranged press conference with Trump following the test, said the move was “absolutely intolerable” and called on North Korea to fully comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions, which forbid Pyongyang from these types of tests.
“The United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent,” Trump said, and took no questions.
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