Trump after NKorea’s Missile over Japan: ’All Options On Table’

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US President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang that "all options are on the table" after North Korea fired a missile over Japan early Tuesday.

North Korea regularly fires missiles into the sea between its own territory and Japan.

On Wednesday morning local time the official North Korean news agency, KCNA, reported the missile launch adding that the North Korean leader guided the launch of the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan.

Officials said the launch was a strong message in response to the ongoing joint US-South Korean military exercise in the southern half of the Korean peninsula.

They further added that the launch was the first of its kind into the Pacific Ocean and was a prelude to more military options aimed at Guam with more launches planned in the future.

It was also carried out on the 107th anniversary of the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1907.

The launch comes as the US and South Korea conduct joint military drills on the peninsula and a day after drills ended between the US and Japan on the northern island of Hokkaido.

It also follows a fiery exchange of threats and insults between Trump and North Korea, commenting through state media.

"The world has received North Korea's latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior," Trump said in a statement, taking a more measured tone than in his previous remarks.

"Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime's isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team