US President Donald Trump held emergency talks with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday to discuss their collective response to the latest provocative North Korean missile test.<\/p>\n
North Korea test fired what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, posing a major challenge to Trump after he slapped fresh sanctions on Pyongyang and declared it a state sponsor of terrorism.<\/p>\n
The missile was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, and traveled about 1000 km before splashing down in the Sea of Japan, within Japan\u2019s Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ).<\/p>\n
Asserting that he will \u201ctake care of\u201d the situation in the aftermath of the North Korean ballistic missile test, Trump held separate calls with Abe and Moon to discuss their collective response to the latest provocative behaviour by Pyongyang.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will take care of it. It is a situation we will handle,\u201d Trump said in the Roosevelt room of the White House soon after North Korea\u2019s ballistic missile test.<\/p>\n
In both the phone calls, the leaders underscored the grave threat that North Korea\u2019s latest provocation poses not only to the US, South Korea, Japan and the entire world.<\/p>\n
They reaffirmed their strong condemnation of North Korea\u2019s reckless campaign to advance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, noting that these weapons only serve to undermine North Korea\u2019s security and deepen its diplomatic and economic isolation, the White House said.<\/p>\n
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, said the missile this time went higher than any previous time.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir Research and Development effort on their part they seem to be developing missiles that can reach anywhere in the world…in response South Korea has launched pinpoint missiles out into the water to make certain North Korea understands they could be under fire from our ally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
US Vice President Mike Pence said all options are on the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to marshall economic and diplomatic pressure until North Korea abandons its nuclear and ballistic missile programs once and for all,\u201d Pence said in his Hudson Institute 2017 Herman Kahn Award Dinner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Kim (North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un) regime in North Korea would do well not to test the resolve of President Trump or the capabilities of the Armed Forces of the United States,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In New York, Permanent Representative of the US to the UN, Nikki Haley, along with her counterparts from Japan and South Korea requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting to be held in the open chamber in response to North Korea\u2019s latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.<\/p>\n
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The Security Council session will be held on November 29, around 4.30 pm EST, a media release said.<\/p>\n
Strongly condemning the missile launch, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said North Korea\u2019s relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them must be reversed.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether the international community must continue to send a unified message to North Korea that it must abandon its WMD (weapons of mass destruction) programs. All nations must continue strong economic and diplomatic measures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition to implementing all existing UN sanctions, the international community must take additional measures to enhance maritime security, including the right to interdict maritime traffic transporting goods to and from North Korea,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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