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Trump, Abe to Boost Pressure on N Korea After Missile Launch - White House

© AFP 2023 / Kazuhiro NOGI Pedestrians walk in front of a huge screen displaying a map of Japan (R) and the Korean Peninsula, in Tokyo on August 29, 2017, following a North Korean missile test that passed over Japan.
Pedestrians walk in front of a huge screen displaying a map of Japan (R) and the Korean Peninsula, in Tokyo on August 29, 2017, following a North Korean missile test that passed over Japan. - Sputnik International
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The US president agreed to continue pressuring North Korea after a conversation with his Japanese counterpart.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump spoke to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the issue of North Korea’s latest missile launch, agreeing to increase pressure on North Korea and doing their utmost to convince the international community to do the same, the White House said Tuesday.

“President Donald J. Trump spoke yesterday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan to address North Korea’s launch of a missile that overflew Japanese territory.  The two leaders agreed that North Korea poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, as well as to countries around the world.  President Trump and Prime Minister Abe committed to increasing pressure on North Korea, and doing their utmost to convince the international community to do the same,” the statement read.

People watch a television news screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on August 29, 2017. - Sputnik International
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The talk took place after North Korea launched a missile which flew over Japan before falling into the Pacific Ocean 1,180 kilometers (733 miles) east of Hokkaido, a Japanese island. 

Earlier in August, North Korea threatened to make an enveloping fire at the areas around the US military bases on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

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