- Title: Japan's PM Abe condemns latest North Korean missile launches
- Date: 2nd October 2019
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (FILE - SEPTEMBER 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE JAPANESE NATIONAL FLAG
- Embargoed: 16th October 2019 03:16
- Keywords: North Korea missile Japan EEZ South Korea
- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- City: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
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- Story Text: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday (October 2) strongly condemned North Korea's latest launch of ballistic missiles and said it was a violation of United Nations resolutions.
North Korea carried out at least one more projectile launch on Wednesday, the South Korean military and Japanese officials said, a day after North Korea announced it will hold working-level talks with the United States at the weekend.
Japan's Coast Guard said in a statement North Korea had launched what appeared to be a missile and urged vessels to pay attention to further information and not to approach any debris.
Japan's chief government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, said it appeared two missiles were launched within minutes of each other and that the first of them fell in waters within Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone, or EEZ.
The latest launch was North Korea's ninth since U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met at the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas in June.
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