North Korea 🇰🇵 missile 🚀 launch angers Japan 🇯🇵, South Korea 🇰🇷

Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, called on the international community to band together after the projectile flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido before falling into the Pacific Ocean on Friday.

The Japanese government had expected the missile launch given North Korea's strong rhetoric on Thursday, threatening to sink the country with a nuclear weapon.

"We should be equipped with protecting ourselves from North Korea's growing nuclear and missile threats and to eliminate those threats by quickly punishing them in cases of provocation against us," he said The White House said US President Donald Trump had been briefed on the latest launch.

James Mattis, the Pentagon chief, said the launch on Friday "put millions of Japanese into duck and cover", although residents in northern Japan appeared calm and went about their business as normal after the second such launch in less than a month.

Friday's missile launch also came just days before world leaders meet in New York for the UN General Assembly session, which will be attended by a high-level North Korean delegation led by the country's foreign minister.

UCJ, UNILORIN.