South Korea media showed the path of the missiles, of which three landed within 200 miles of Japan Lee Jin-man/APGovernments across the Pacific reacted with fury today after North Korea fired a volley of ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, in defiance of what it claims are preparations for an invasion by South Korea and the United States. Three of the four missiles landed within 200 miles of Japan, in what Shinzo Abe, its prime minister, called a new order of threat. But there was no indication that they included an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the US mainland, a strategic breakthrough which would represent a grave provocation to the government of President Trump. “North Korea has entered a new stage of threat,” Mr Abe told the Japanese Diet, before an emergency meeting of his national security council. “The launches are clearly…

Source: The Times March 06, 2017 09:00 UTC