The North regularly threatens to destroy the Japan, South Korea and the South's main ally, the United States. "The North Korean regime must realize that complete isolation and self-destruction await at the end of reckless provocation," she said. Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said the second missile reached an altitude of 1,000 km (620 miles), indicating North Korea had made progress. "We don't know whether it counts as a success, but North Korea has shown some capability with IRBMs (intermediate range ballistic missiles)," he told reporters in Tokyo. The launches and earlier nuclear tests show continued defiance of international warnings and a series of U.N. Security Council resolutions and sanctions, which North Korea rejects as an infringement of its sovereignty.

Source: Standard Digital June 22, 2016 08:26 UTC