Daily Mirror

Kim in the crosshairs

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SOUTH Korean F-15 jets find their targets in a training blitz as tensions with the North look set to explode.

US nuclear bombers and Japanese fighters also joined them for exercises yesterday.

The allies put on a show of strength after dictator Kim Jong-un took the world to the brink of war on Tuesday by firing a rocket over Japan.

Theresa May told China to back the UK, US and Japan in calls to impose oil sanctions.

Speaking in Tokyo, the PM said: “They [China] have leverage on North Korea.”

Beijing announced import bans including coal and iron from North Korea last month.

But a No10 source said: “We have to work together in the UN Security Council to perhaps put forward a new resolution. But we could look at, for example, new areas of the economy.”

Mrs May added that Kim poses an “unpreceden­ted threat to internatio­nal security”. Yesterday the North Korean ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office for a dressing down over the rocket launch.

 ??  ?? RALLYING CALL May in Tokyo ACTION South Korea’s F-15s let rip
RALLYING CALL May in Tokyo ACTION South Korea’s F-15s let rip

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