La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México invita a la conferencia de medios ¿El mundo se encuentra cerca de una guerra nuclear?
14 de septiembre, 11:00 horas.
Desde el edificio Mario Molina, en Ciudad Universitaria.
North Korea launches missile over Japan (The Guardian)
The North last month used the same Sunan airport to fire a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile that flew over northern Japan in what it declared as a “meaningful prelude” to containing the US Pacific island territory of Guam and the start of more ballistic missile launches targeting the Pacific ocean.
The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, believes today’s missile launch is a sign of the regime’s frustration at being hit with further sanctions.
This week the UN security council voted unanimously in favour of a ban on the country’s textile exports and a ceiling on the country’s imports of crude oil. (Full report here.)
Turnbull told Sky News: “This is another dangerous, reckless, criminal act by the North Korean regime threatening the stability of the region and the world and we condemn it utterly.”
23:57 (London time)
The North last month used the same Sunan airport to fire a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile that flew over northern Japan in what it declared as a “meaningful prelude” to containing the US Pacific island territory of Guam and the start of more ballistic missile launches targeting the Pacific ocean.
See here for the report from our Tokyo correspondent Justin McCurry
‘Missile passing’: Japan wakes to ominous warning about North Korean launch
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Justin McCurry Justin McCurry
The Japanese government says there was no danger to people or shipping from missile debris. The projectile, which has yet to be identified, appears to have been launched in a similar direction to the one that passed over northern Japan late last month.
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Japanese broadcast NHK has reported the missile flew into Japanese airspace this morning before landing in the sea about 2000km east of Cape Erimo on Hokkaido in the north.
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South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff have said the missile was launched from Sunan, the site of Pyongyang’s international airport.
23:47
North Korea has launched an unidentified missile that travelled east towards Japan, South Korea’s military said on Friday.
Both the US and South Korean militaries are working to establish what kind of projectile was launched. It is known that it was fired from near the North’s capital, Pyongyang.
We will bring you more details here as soon as we have them.