breaking news — and in the last few minutes, japan's coast guard and the south korean news agency yonhapboth said that north korea appears to have fired what could be a ballistic missile off — its east coast and that it appears to have landed in the sea. this comes just after the united nations security council held an emergency meeting to discuss north korea's test firing of another ballistic missile overjapan on tuesday. that missile travelled 4,600 kilometers before falling into the pacific ocean. it was north korea's first missile launch overjapan since 2017. in today's session the us ambassador to the united nations accused china and russia on wednesday of enabling north korea. the d prk has enjoyed blanket protection from two members of this council. these two members have gone out of their way to justify the dprk provocation in update the sanctions in the region. in short to permanent members of the security council have been enabled —— enabled kimjong—il and on. japan's ambassador to the un condemned what he described as a clear escalation from north korea. they pose a grave and

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within the past few hours japan's coastguard and the south korean news agency yonhap have both said thatorth korea has fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast, which appear to have landed in the sea outside japan's exclusive economic zone. this comes just after the united nations security council held an emergency meeting to discuss north korea's test firing of another ballistic missile overjapan on tuesday. that missile travelled 4,600 kilometres before falling into the pacific ocean. it was north korea's first missile launch over japan since 2017. the us ambassador to the united nations has accused china and russia of enabling north korea. the dprk has enjoyed blanket protection from two members of this council. these two members have gone out of their way to justify the dprk's repeated provocations and block every attempt to update the sanctions regime. in short, two permanent members of the security council have enabled kim jong—un. japan's ambassador to the un condemned what he described as a clear escalation from north korea. they pose a grave and imminent threat to the pea