North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan

In order to challenge the United States and to boldly spite President, Donald Trump for his threatening comments in Arizona where he stated that he would “rain down fire and fury on North Korea if it endangered the United States” North Korea fired a ballistic Missile over Japan on Tuesday August 28, 2017. They had initially threatened to attack Guam (territory of Japan and U.S military bases) but instead North Korea shot it “over” Japan to divert it from heading to Guam but to prove to the U.S.  and Japan that even though they are not going to attack Guam, they can if they wanted to and by doing this, they sought to provoke them. The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe stated that North Koreas actions are a “grave and serious threat” and discussed it over the phone with President Trump who agreed that they need to make tougher sanctions on North Korea (Sang-Hun, Sanger). The goal is for nations to maintain denuclearized in order to avoid civilian casualties, be secure and achieve mutual economic growth. North Korea needs to play nice.

Work Cited

Sang-Hun, Choe & Sanger, David E.

“North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan.” nytimes.com.  Aug.28, 2017.

The NY Times Company. Web. 1 Sept 2017






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