‘N Korea missile tests broke UN resolutions’

Bloomberg

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe said North Korea violated UN resolutions with its missile launches this month, putting pressure on the US to raise the issue with the Security Council.
Abe, who has long favoured a harder line against Kim Jong-un’s weapon programme, told a meeting of ruling coalition UN resolutions must be better enforced. That contrasted with US President Donald Trump, who said “nobody’s happy about” the missile launches, but stopped short of declaring them a violation.
“Regarding the launches of short-range missiles by North Korea, they are a breach of UN Security Council resolutions and extremely regrettable,” Abe said.
“While cooperating closely with the US and other related countries, we are
planning to tackle this appropriately by strengthening enforcement of related UN Security Council resolutions.”
North Korea conducted test launches on May 4 and May 9 — its first and most significant military operations since November 2017.