Japan Says North Korea Poses New Level of Threat

  

  Japan’s defence ministry says North Korea’s missile development poses a new level of threat.

   They disclosed this  in an annual report reiterated concerns over China’s increasing military posture.

   Report says, Japan, which lies across the sea from North Korea, has been wary for decades over its missile development as well as Pyongyang’s history of abducting Japanese citizens to train its spies.

  North Korea has increasingly been firing missiles into the waters between the two countries and last month launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles, with leader Kim Jong-Un boasting the entire United States was within reach.

   The UN Security Council at the weekend unanimously approved tough new sanctions against North Korea that could cost Pyongyang $1 billion a year.