- North Korea has fired a second missile over Japan.
- South Korea responded with a live fire drill.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned there is “no bright future” for North Korea.
- US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called on China and Russia to take “direct action”.
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8.00am: North Korea missile sparks market fall
US and European stock futures and Asian shares dipped slightly on Friday after North Korea fired another missile over Japan on Friday, demonstrating Pyongyang’s defiance against intensifying UN sanctions.
US stock futures fell as much as 0.3 percent earlier but last stood down just 0.1 percent while MSCI’s Asia-Pacific share index excluding Japan shed 0.1 percent, though it was still up 0.7 percent on the week.
Japan’s Nikkei erased earlier gains to end 0.5 percent higher.
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European stock futures dipped slightly, with Euro Stoxx 50 futures down 0.15 percent.
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North Korea: South Korea launched a retaliatory missile drill
4.00am: South Korea responds with missile drill
South Korea fired two ballistic missiles just six minutes after the North Korean missile launch, it has emerged.
The exercise was designed to demonstrate to Kim Jong-un the speed at which Seoul could launch a counter-attack if necessary.
North Korea’s missile was still in the air at the time.
A spokesperson for the joint chiefs of staff told the Yonhap news agency that one of the Hyunmoo-2 missiles “accurately” hit a target 250km away in the Sea of Japan – the same distance as North Korea’s launch site.
The second missile failed and fell into waters in “the initial stage”.
2.00am: Shinzo Abe warns ‘no bright future’ for North Korea
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has issued a stark warning to North Korea.
“The UN resolution showed the international community’s unified strong will for a peaceful solution. But despite that, North Korea has again carried out this outrageous conduct.
“It is absolutely unacceptable.
“We request an emergency meeting of the United Nations security council. Global peace is threatened by North Korea’s dangerous provocations.
“The international community should unite against such conduct to send a clear message … The recent sanctions and resolutions must be fully complied with and implemented. That is now ever more clear.
“If North Korea continues to walk this road, there will be no bright future. We need to get North Korea to understand that.
“This time, the Japanese government once again, since immediately after the missile launch … had completely assessed the movements of the missile and we have taken all full necessary measures.
“And under the firm Japan-US alliance, we will step up our level of alert to ensure the security and the sense of security of the Japanese people.”
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North Korea: Shinzo Abe issued a stark warning
North Korea hosts a lavish banquet in honour of the country’s nuclear weapons developers
Wed, September 13, 2017
A gala banquet celebrating last week’s hydrogen bomb test, which was so powerful it caused an earthquake
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claps during a celebration for nuclear scientists and engineers who contributed to a hydrogen bomb test, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
3.00am: Rex Tillerson calls for ‘direct action’
The US Secretary of State has called on China and Russia to take “direct actions of their own” in response to North Korea’s missile launch.
“North Korea’s provocative missile launch represents the second time the people of Japan, a treaty ally of the United States, have been directly threatened in recent weeks.
“These continued provocations only deepen North Korea’s diplomatic and economic isolation.
“United Nations security council resolutions, including the most recent unanimous sanctions resolution, represent the floor, not the ceiling, of the actions we should take. We call on all nations to take new measures against the Kim regime.
“China supplies North Korea with most of its oil. Russia is the largest employer of North Korean forced labor.
“China and Russia must indicate their intolerance for these reckless missile launches by taking direct actions of their own.”
President Donald Trump is yet to make a statement.
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North Korea: The missile launch follows a similar one just two weeks ago
11.30pm: North Korea fires missile over Japan
North Korea has launched its second missile over Japan in just over two weeks.
The missile was fired from Sunan, near Pyongyang, this morning at 6.57am local time (10.57pm BST Thursday) and flew directly over the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
The warhead crashed into the sea, 2,200km east of Cape Erimo, 20 minutes after it had launched.
It travelled 3,700km – the furthest a North Korean missile has ever flown. Guam is just 3,380km away form North Korea.
US and South Korean military have said that they believe an intermediate-range missile (IRBM) was fired, similar to the Hwasong-12 that was launched on August 29.
The Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has said that the weapon could be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a much more powerful warhead capable of hitting the US.