North Korea vs USA news LIVE: Time for talking is OVER, says Trump as Kim ramps up threats.
DONALD Trump has blasted North Korea on Twitter and said "talking is not the answer" after Kim Jong-un's missile launch over Japan on Tuesday morning.
Here is the latest news and live updates on North Korea and Japan with reactions from the US and South Korea.
State TV in North Korea has released footage of the missile which flew directly over northern Japan before crashing some 1,180km off the coast on Tuesday morning.
Donald Trump branded Kim Jong-un's act "threatening and destabilising" and the US has conducted its own missile test in the waters off Hawaii.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May attacked the "outrageous" launch and called on China to curb North Korea's warmongering when she arrived in Japan this morning.
10.42pm - Russian diplomat and an expert in Asian studies, Professor Georgy Toloraya said that if conflict broke out, a number of countries “will be living under a threat of a nuclear volcano erupting" - and South Korea would be turned into a “desert”.
He said: “Everyone understands perfectly well that for North Korea, if it initiates an aggressive strike, a military conflict will mean a complete and immediate destruction, because no one can deny the US military might.
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