N Korea warns Japan risks 'imminent self-destruction'

North Korea has warned Japan it risks "imminent self-destruction" for siding with the United States.


The warning comes as tensions soar after Pyongyang fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan.

The North's official KCNA news agency said the allies' "military nexus" had become a 'serious threat' to the Korean peninsula and Japan was "unaware" it was 'accelerating self-destruction'.

It made a specific reference to US forces being based in Hokkaido, the island that the North's missile flew over. North Korea has warned of more similar tests to come.
  [rte.ie]
31/8/17
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