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Japan government confirms North Korea conducted nuclear test

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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a parliamentary session in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Abe told Friday's parliamentary session that his wife Akie had resigned from "honorary principal" of a private elementary school run by a man with ultra-nationalistic views. His confirmation comes a day after an endorsement of the school from her was removed from its website. Abe, however, has said he was aware that Akie served in an honorary position for the school, whose president is a passionate supporter of the prime minister's views. (Toshiyuki Matsumoto/Kyodo News via AP)

“The government confirms that North Korea conducted a nuclear test after examining information from the weather agency and other information,” said Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono

Japan confirmed that North Korea had conducted a nuclear test on Sunday, and lodged a formal protest with Pyongyang after a major explosion at the isolated nation’s main test site. “The government confirms that North Korea conducted a nuclear test after examining information from the weather agency and other information,” Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono told reporters.

He said the government registered a protest with the North Korean embassy in Beijing prior to the confirmation, calling any test “extremely unforgivable”.

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