Japanese Take Cover as North Korea Fires Missile Near Japan
Hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to “sink” Japan and reduce the United States “to ashes and darkness,” it launched a missile early Friday morning from Pyongyang, the nation’s capital, that flew eastward over the Sea of Japan.
BREAKING: North Korea fires missile over Hokkaido at 7:06 a.m.: Tokyo
— The Japan Times (@japantimes) September 14, 2017
Initial reports via Twitter said the missile “fell into the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 km to the east off Hokkaido.”
The BBC reported that as soon as news of the launch was released, Japan advised its residents to take shelter. A previous North Korean missile test overflew the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
NHK telling people to take shelter in buildings, or underground, stay away from windows #missile #northkorea #japan pic.twitter.com/HE389O1mnw
— Joseph Tame (@tamegoeswild) September 14, 2017
Citizens were advised “to take shelter in buildings, or underground, stay away from windows,” according to one report.
The launch followed an inflammatory statement from the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee that called for the breakup of the United Nations Security Council, which it called “a tool of evil” made up of “money-bribed” countries that move at the order of the United States.
“The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of (the regime). Japan is no longer needed to exist near us,” the committee said in a statement.
North Korea also directly vilified the U.S.
“The army and people of the DPRK are unanimously demanding that the Yankees be beaten to death as a stick is fit for a rabid dog. Now is the time to annihilate the U.S. imperialist aggressors,” the statement said, using the acronym for North Korea’s official name, The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“Let’s reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness. Let’s vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now,” the statement said.
South Korea was also mentioned as a target.
“South Korean puppet forces are traitors and dogs of the U.S. The group of pro-American traitors should be severely punished and wiped out with fire,” the North Korean statement said. (For more from the author of “Japanese Take Cover as North Korea Fires Missile Near Japan” please click HERE)
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