Japan, China, South Korea agree to urge North Korea to stop provocation
Three big Asian countries came to an agreement to call the attention of North Korea to stop provocation against other countries in the continent.
This was the response of Japan, China and South Korea following the firing of Pyongyang of ballistic missile towards Japan.
On Wednesday, a North Korean submarine fired a ballistic missile that flew about 500 km (311 miles) toward Japan.
This is a way of North Korea of showing to the world that they have improving technological capability that has conducted a series of launches in defiance of UN sanctions.
Officials at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defence Ministry said the missile was fired at around 5:30 a.m. from near the coastal city of Sinpo, where satellite imagery shows a submarine base is located.
Following this, on the same day, Japan, China and South Korea agreed to urge North Korea to refrain from provocation and follow U.N. Security Council resolutions, after the country’s latest missile launch towards Tokyo.
“We have confirmed that we will urge North Korea to exercise self-restraint regarding its provocative action, and to observe the U.N. Security Council’s resolutions,” Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told a news conference after hosting a trilateral meeting with his Chinese and South Korean counterparts.
The projectile reached Japan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) for the first time, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a briefing, referring to an area of control designated by countries to help maintain air security.
The distance of the flight indicated the North’s push to develop a submarine-launched missile system was paying off, officials and rocketry experts said.
The launch comes two days after rival South Korea and the United States began annual military exercises in the South that North Korea condemns as a preparation for invasion, and has threatened retaliation.
Reports said the launch could be seen as a response to the drills, calling the exercises “a dangerous game.”
United Nations imposed sanctions against North Korea because of the series of missile launch but this can’t stop Pyongyang from technology display.
