APEC leaders hold emergency meeting over North Korea’s missile launch
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with leaders of Canada, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia in Bangkok, where they condemned North Korea’s latest missile launch.
South Korea “strongly condemns this brazen act … We urge the DPRK to immediately cease all types of provocations and abide by relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions,” said its prime minister Han Duck-soo.
North Korea fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in the same month on Friday. It landed 200 kilometers off Japan.
Japan’s defense minister Yasukazu Hamada said that based on calculations of its flight path, and depending on factors including how heavy the warhead is, “the ICBM-class ballistic missile launched today could have a range of over 15,000 km, in which case, all of the U.S. mainland would be included in its range,” NBC reported.
Other leaders who condemned the…
