Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to put pressure on North Korea until it changes its ways and gives up its missile and nuclear technology. Photo: ReutersTokyo: North Korea’s missile tests are an “imminent threat” to Japan, the Japanese parliament declared Monday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said talking to the reclusive state was meaningless. Abe vowed to put pressure on North Korea until it changes its ways and gives up its missile and nuclear technology in a “verifiable” and “irreversible” fashion. “In order to press North Korea into changing its policies, we shall take a resolute attitude in our diplomacy,” he told the upper house. Global anxiety about North Korea has steadily risen this year, and Washington last week called on other UN members to cut ties with it in order to squeeze the secretive regime.

Source: Mint December 04, 2017 07:52 UTC