Japan will lodge a diplomatic protest over North Korea’s latest missile test through China, its top cabinet official told reporters on Sunday, soon after the isolated communist country fired a 500 km range ballistic missile.
Japan will lodge a diplomatic protest over North Korea’s latest missile test through China, its top cabinet official told reporters on Sunday, soon after the isolated communist country fired a 500 km range ballistic missile.
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Describing North Korea’s latest missile test as « an act of provocation, » Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that the missile testing was deliberately timed to coincide with a meeting between U. S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
According to the available information , the minister did not state when and how Japan will seek to lodge a protest with China. As per the diplomatic norm, the Japanese government may lodge a protest with the Chinese embassy in Tokyo.
The Chinese government is yet to issue any statement on the Japanese minister’s comments.
