North Korea suddenly launched a missile that made the two-day term of high-market early morning urgently change the course.
With takaichi sanae winning more than half of the votes in the Japanese House of Representatives, Japan ushered in the first female prime minister in history.
For takaichi sanae herself, this result undoubtedly made her breathe a sigh of relief. However, since sitting in this position, it also means taking on the corresponding work and responsibilities.
No, just the day after sanae takaichi came to power, North Korea launched several missiles.
According to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff Headquarters, the missile was launched at around 8: 10am, located in Zhonghe County, North Yellow Sea Province, southwestern North Korea, and the direction was northeast.
The east side of the Korean Peninsula is the Sea of Japan.
Hearing this, Gaoshi Zaomiao reacted quickly.
She quickly said that at the moment there is no confirmation that the missile has entered the territorial sea or exclusive economic zone of Japan, nor has it received information such as damage reports, at the same time, the Japanese side is working closely with the U.S. side to take necessary measures such as real-time sharing of North Korean missile information.
Takashi Saami also mentioned that after South Korea announced North Korea's missile launch, she changed her travel schedule to receive situation reports.
At present, the Prime Minister has instructed the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs to continue collecting and analyzing the necessary information.
The new Japanese cabinet's defense minister, the rival of High City Morning Sun previously campaigning for the self-government party chairman, the foreign minister Momoi敏充 is not the first time to take the position.
Obviously, for the new Japanese cabinet, on the second day after their formation, they ran into something that needed to be vigilant.
The “coincidence” of this time also seems to have justified us in linking the rise of the high market early, with North Korea’s missile launches.
Unlike scolding the United States and South Korea from time to time, North Korea does not express much attitude towards Japan. This does not mean that DPRK-Japan relations are better. On the contrary, it is precisely because DPRK-Japan relations are extremely poor that North Korea has nothing to say about Japan.
In July this year, North Korea called some statements in Japan's Defense White Paper "shameless sophistry", pointing out that Japan is having increasingly crazy and dangerous ambitions to become a military power, and calling on other countries to be vigilant about this.
Pushing time forward, the DPRK asked Japan to look directly at history and liquidate the past, and fiercely criticized Japanese far-right conservative politicians.
The first time I was in the high school, that was one of them.
Although North Korea has not issued a statement about the change of Japanese government, there is no doubt that it is continuing to pay attention to some of the situation.
At the same time, it is not difficult to imagine what attitude Pyongyang can have towards the high-market early-size government.
From this perspective, the number of missiles fired by North Korea could indeed be seen as a warning to a new Japanese government.
For the gateway, the company understands, so her reaction is equally fast, especially referring to the "strict cooperation" with the U.S. side, which aims to emphasize the position of the Japanese government on the situation on the peninsula and on U.S.-Japan relations.
However, North Korea's warning to Japan is also "limited".According to the Korean military, the missile ended up falling in the inland area, not in the eastern waters, and should be used short-range ballistic missiles.
Obviously, North Korea's choice to launch missiles eastward but controlled its flight distance also sent a fairly clear signal. That is, this action is more of a "warning" level than a "threat".
As for whether the DPRK will take similar actions in the future, it may depend on what takaichi sanae's cabinet does.
Of course, there are other interpretations of North Korea’s missile test, with some viewpoints linking the matter to the upcoming informal meeting of APEC leaders in Chongqing, South Korea.
Trump may take the opportunity to come to South Korea. At the same time, according to the United States and South Korea, China may also attend to realize the high-level meeting between China and the United States in South Korea.
If this really happens, the US and China will inevitably talk about North Korea-related issues, and North Korea must be very concerned about this possibility.
Therefore, Pyongyang needs to take a clear position.
Although South Korea has repeatedly mentioned that it "does not rule out" the possibility of North Korean leaders attending the meeting, the answer is self-evident.
In this case, making a statement "off-site" is also a way to "participate".
The common view in South Korea is that the DPRK's move is intended to "show force" and "brush the sense of existence".
In fact, North Korea's recent proactive high-profile demonstration of one purpose is to let the outside world accept the reality of its "nuclear-powered country".
It should be said that the regime changes in the United States, Japan and South Korea have indeed added subtle variables to the situation on the peninsula. It will take time to prove whether the three-country paramilitary alliance's containment of North Korea will become closer and closer or relax.
But no matter what happens, what is certain is that North Korea's attitude will only become stronger and stronger in order to maximize its own national interests.