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Page 12 The Skanner July 5, 2017 World News Briefs North Korea Long-Range Missile Test Spurs US Calls for Action WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea’s first test of an intercontinental ballis- tic missile, demonstrating a dangerous new reach for weapons it hopes to top with nuclear warheads one day, is spur- ring U.S. demands for “global action” to counter the threat. U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday their belief that North Korea’s latest missile launch was indeed an ICBM and joined South Korea and Japan in requesting an emergency meeting of the U.N. Se- curity Council, scheduled Wednesday afternoon. Previously, North Korea had demonstrated missiles of short and medium range but never one able to get to the United States. In a show of force directly respond- ing to North Korea’s provocation, U.S. and South Korean soldiers fired “deep strike” precision missiles into South Korean territorial waters on Tuesday, U.S. military officials in Seoul said. The missile firings demonstrated U.S.-South Korean solidarity, the U.S. Eighth Army said in a statement. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson vowed “stronger measures to hold the DPRK accountable,” using an acro- nym for the isolated nation’s formal name, and said: “Glob- al action is required to stop a global threat.” Any country helping North Korea militar- ily or economically, taking in its guest workers or falling short on Security Council resolutions, he said, “is aid- ing and abetting a dangerous regime.” Tillerson’s statement, is- sued Tuesday evening as most Americans were cel- ebrating the Fourth of July holiday, notably did not men- tion China, whose help the Trump administration has been aggressively seeking to press Pyongyang over its nu- clear weapons program. KRT VIA AP VIDEO News This image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea’s KRT on July 4 shows what was said to be North Korea leader Kim Jung Un, center, applauding after the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea’s northwest. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. Keeping North Korea from having a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile has long been considered a key U.S. red line; and one Pyongyang has thumbed its nose at for years. Its Fourth of July ICBM launch is just the latest step in its long march toward, and maybe over, that line. Trump Looks for Friendlier European Welcome in Poland WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is headed back to Eu- rope hoping to receive a friendly wel- come in Poland despite lingering skep- ticism across the continent over his commitment to NATO, his past praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his decision to pull the U.S. out of a major climate agreement. Trump arrives in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday for a brief visit that will include a speech in Krasinski Square, near the site of the 1944 Warsaw Up- rising against the Nazis. He’ll also meet with the leaders of Poland and Croatia and hold a joint news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Before moving on to an international summit in Germany, the president will also hold meetings with the leaders of a dozen countries located between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black seas at a sum- mit of the Three Seas Initiative, which aims to expand and modernize energy and trade. One of the initiative’s goals is to make the region less dependent on Russian energy. “Even if he doesn’t mention Putin or Russia outright, just stepping foot in Poland sends a powerful statement,” said Jim Carafano, a foreign policy an- alyst at the Heritage Foundation, a con- servative think tank. “Europe is work- ing for energy independence — looking for free market solutions — and Poland is in the middle of that energy corridor, so it makes so much sense that the pres- ident would go there and talk about en- ergy policy.” At the same time, Trump will have to balance his visit to Europe with esca- lating tensions with North Korea, after the U.S. concluded Tuesday that North Korea had test-launched its first inter- continental ballistic missile. The U.S., See WORLD on page 10 Information is powerful. The power is in your hands. www.TheSkanner.com TheSkannerNews @TheSkannerNews
