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| North Korea missile over Japan: China blames US and South Korea for provoking Pyongyang | North Korea missile over Japan: China blames US and South Korea for provoking Pyongyang |
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| China has warned the US and South Korea not to provoke North Korea and called for restraint from all sides after Pyongyang fired a missile that flew over Japan and landed in waters off the northern region of Hokkaido. | China has warned the US and South Korea not to provoke North Korea and called for restraint from all sides after Pyongyang fired a missile that flew over Japan and landed in waters off the northern region of Hokkaido. |
| Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comment at a daily news briefing. | Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comment at a daily news briefing. |
| North Korea's latest missile test came amid joint US-South Korea war games, and Seoul immediately followed up with a test bombing at a firing range near its border with the North. | |
| North Korea typically reacts with anger to such drills, often testing weapons and threatening Seoul and Washington in its state-controlled media. | |
| But animosity is higher than usual following threats by US President Donald Trump to unleash "fire and fury" on the North, and Pyongyang's threat to bomb the American Pacific territory of Guam. | |
| China's foreign ministry said it opposed North Korea going against UN resolutions to launch missiles, but added that sanctions and pressure could not solve the issue. It called for the United States and North Korea to open talks. | |
| Mr Trump has tried to pressure China, Pyongyang's sole major ally, into doing more to restrain the Kim regime. | |
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