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North Korean missile launch draws 'strong' protest from Japan

A woman touches her late son's portrait after an event Wednesday at the National Cemetery of South Korea in Daejeon to mark the fourth anniversary of the sinking of the Cheonan, which is believed to have been torpedoed by North Korea in 2010, killing 46 South Korean Navy sailors. | REUTERS

By Reiji Yoshida
Staff Writer

Mar 26, 2014

Japan filed a strong protest Wednesday against Pyongyang over its test-firing of two intermediate-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan earlier in the day.

The launch took place as the leaders of the U.S, South Korea and Japan gathered in The Hague for summit talks on the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.

The timing of the missile launch during a trilateral meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Park Geun-hye and President Barack Obama suggested it was a deliberate show of force by Pyongyang aimed squarely at their three countries.

North Korean missile launch draws 'strong' protest from Japan

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