North Korea’s missile tests are an “imminent threat” to Japan, the Japanese parliament declared Monday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said talking to the reclusive state was meaningless. Tensions on the Korean peninsula are high after last Wednesday’s missile launch. “In order to press North Korea into changing its policies, we shall take a resolute attitude in our diplomacy,” he told the upper house. Global anxiety about North Korea has steadily risen this year, and Washington last week called on other UN members to cut ties with it in order to squeeze the secretive regime. The call, however, has fallen short of persuading key North Korean backers – China and Russia – to take steps to isolate the regime.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 04, 2017 07:30 UTC