Trump announced new US sanctions on Thursday that he said allow targeting of companies and institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea. North Korea has launched dozens of missiles this year, several flying over Japan, as it accelerates its program aimed at enabling it to target the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile. It said the operation showed the seriousness with which it took North Korea’s “reckless behaviour”. An official of South Korea’s meteorological agency said acoustic waves should be detected in the event of a man-made earthquake. All of North Korea’s six nuclear tests registered as earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 or above.

Source: The Guardian September 24, 2017 00:11 UTC