BEIJING, March 25 (Reuters) – – China has urged “all parties” to exercise restraint over North Korea’s long-range missile tests, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
“We express our concern over the current situation,” ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said when asked about the trials at a daily meeting.
Pyongyang on Thursday fired a Hwasong-17, a “new type” of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) measuring nearly 2.5 meters, in a test that leader Kim Jong-un said was intended to demonstrate the power of the North Korean nuclear force and deter US military action.
The missile landed inside Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), 170 km west of Aomori Prefecture in the north of the country, according to the Japanese Coast Guard. (Report by Eduardo Baptista, French version Dina Kartit, edited by Jean-Michel Bélot)
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