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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says missile test over Japan is ‘first step to containing Guam’ North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says missile test over Japan is ‘first step to containing Guam’
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called the country’s latest missile test over Japan “a meaningful prelude to containing Guam”. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called the country’s latest missile test over Japan “a meaningful prelude to containing Guam” and said his country should conduct more missile tests into the Pacific Ocean, maintaining his country's defiant posture even as the United Nations convened an emergency meeting on containing the Korean threat.
More follows… The remark again makes the small Pacific island an outsize player in a global struggle over North Korea's military ambitions. It was frequently invoked as the United States and North Korea traded belligerent rhetoric earlier this month, with Donald Trump's threat of punishing North Korea with “fear and fire” prompting North Korea's military to announce it was formulating plans to strike Guam.
North Korea subsequently signaled it was shelving the threat, drawing praise from Mr Trump.
But a series of missile tests in recent days has again raised the temperature. Japan is on high alert after North Korea fired a missile over the island of Hokkaido, which prompted an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
Mr Kim was present to observe the test of the missile that rattled Japan, according to the Korean Central News Agency, a government mouthpiece. The news service also said the projectile was a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile.
The missile hurtled toward Japan as the United States and South Korea were conducting joint military exercises that North Korea has consistently denounced as an act of aggression. 
In the wake of the missile launch, Japanese officials said they would urge the international community to intensify pressure on an increasingly assertive North Korea. The security council already voted unanimously in early August to impose new sanctions that sought to inflict economic pain by banning coal and other exports.
Prior to the meeting, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said “something serious has to happen” without providing additional details, according to the Associated Press. Donald Trump said North Korea had displayed “contempt for its neighbors” and that “all options are on the table” for a response.