BREAKING: North Korea announces it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile https://t.co/q5RCsurKfw pic.twitter.com/Clx7f1945b
— CNN (@CNN) July 4, 2017
“Japan will work to increase international pressure on North Korea by uniting strongly with the US and South Korea.”
“I’m also planning to call on the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, and the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to play a more constructive role.”
Meanwhile, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop issued a statement calling the tests “provocative,” calling for the DPRK to act more proactively and focus on the welfare of their long-suffering people, rather than antagonise and threaten its neighbours.
“North Korea continues to threaten its neighbours while undermining regional and global security.”
“North Korea’s long-term interests would be best served by ceasing its nuclear and missiles programs and focusing on improving the lives of its long suffering people.”
US President Donald Trump earlier Tweeted about the situation in typically baffling, self-contradictory fashion, questioning whether or not Kim Jong-un had “anything better to do.” Huh.
North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that South Korea…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2017
….and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2017
It’s the middle of the night in the US at the time of writing, so a more official response from the States is still yet to come.