{"id":3455,"date":"2017-08-29T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somalionlinemedia.com\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2017-08-29T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:14:14","slug":"north-korea-fires-missile-over-japan-in-unprecedented-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/?p=3455","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires missile over Japan in ‘unprecedented threat’"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an “unprecedented” threat to his country.<\/p>\n

The missile, launched early on Tuesday Korean time, flew over Hokkaido island before crashing into the sea.<\/p>\n

The UN Security Council is expected to hold an emergency meeting in response.<\/p>\n

North Korea has conducted\u00a0a flurry of missile tests<\/a>\u00a0recently, but this is the first time it has fired what is thought to be a ballistic weapon over Japan.<\/p>\n

On the two previous occasions its rockets crossed Japan – in 1998 and 2009 – North Korea said they were for satellite launch vehicles, not weapons.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says this latest launch appears to be the first of a missile powerful enough to potentially carry a nuclear warhead.<\/p>\n

Residents told to seek shelter<\/h2>\n

The South Korean military said the missile was fired eastward just before 06:00 local time (21:00 GMT) from near the North’s capital, Pyongyang – which is rare.<\/p>\n

Early analysis of the launch suggests the missile:<\/p>\n