Kim casts shadow over Japan

On Thursday Pyongyang declared that Japan “should be sunken into the sea” with a nuclear bomb. Yesterday it sent Japanese citizens rushing inside buildings and into basements when it fired a missile over the island of Hokkaido.

It was the second time in less than three weeks that North Korea sent a ballistic missile over Japan, and the launch came less than two weeks after North Korea exploded what is widely believed to be a hydrogen bomb.

The latest launch immediately sparked angry reactions from Tokyo and Seoul.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the international community had to unite to punish Kim Jong Un’s regime, calling this week’s UN Security Council sanctions “the floor, not the ceiling”.