Japan PM Abe: North Korean missile launch a grave threat to Japan's security
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday the launch of a North Korean missile that landed in or near Japanese waters was a grave threat to Japan's security and that Tokyo had protested strongly. North Korea fired a ballistic missile from its western region in to the sea off its east coast early on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of launches in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions. (Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Paul Tait)
