North Korea Bucks the U.N. With Latest Missile Test
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Early Tuesday, North Korea fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido island and landed in the Pacific ocean. The action by the North Koreans is considered a direct threat to both Japan and the United States.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the test an "unprecedented, serious and grave threat." And President Donald Trump issued a statement denouncing the test and saying that "all options are on the table” when it comes to responding to it.
To consider the significance of this test, The Takeaway turns to Joshua Pollack, senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and editor of The Nonproliferation Review.
This segmemt is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
