Tokyo residents worry over North Korea's latest missile launch

Record ID: 904610

  • Title: Tokyo residents worry over North Korea's latest missile launch
  • Date: 29th July 2017
  • Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (JULY 29, 2017) (REUTERS) STORE SELLING NEWSPAPERS JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS ON STAND JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS REPORTING NORTH KOREA'S LATEST MISSILE LAUNCH PEOPLE CROSSING THE STREET SCREEN ON BUILDING SHOWING NEWS HEADLINE ON NORTH KOREA'S LATEST MISSILE LAUNCH (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 43 YEAR-OLD TOKYO RESIDENT, NORIKO MATSUNAGA, SAYING: "Under Japan's unstable situation following the resignation of our defence minister, I'm really terrified this (North Korea's missile launch) happened." (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 42 YEA-OLD TOKYO RESIDENT, SOICHI WATANABE, SAYING: "North Korea has gone against the so-called international norms. I think anxiety has grown over North Korea's lack of common sense, where the nation, which is not supposed to launch missiles actually does. " VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING ON STREETS
  • Embargoed: 12th August 2017 06:15
  • Keywords: North Korea missiles ICBM Tokyo Japan
  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • City: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016RRS211
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Residents of Tokyo expressed their concerns on Saturday (July 29) after North Korea fired a ballistic missile that landed in the waters of Japan's exclusive economic zone.
    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally supervised the midnight launch of the missile on Friday (July 28), which the nation said was another successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that proved its ability to strike all of America's mainland, drawing a sharp warning from U.S. President Donald Trump and a rebuke from China.
    Noriko Matsunaga, 43 year-old resident of Tokyo, said she was terrified with the North Korea's missile launch, especially under Japan's unstable situation, where Japanese Defense Minister Inada Tomomi had just resigned on Friday (July 28).
    The launch comes less than a month after the North conducted its first ICBM test in defiance of years of efforts led by the United States, South Korea and Japan to rein in Pyongyang's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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