Japan Warns North Korea After Getting Notice of Satellite Launch

  • Kishida says Tokyo will work with allies to deal with matter
  • North Korea has failed twice this year to deploy spy satellite
Fumio Kishida Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called on North Korea to halt its plans to launch a satellite after Japan received a notice on fields where debris from a rocket may fall at sea.

Kishida told reporters Tuesday that a launch would be in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, and his government would work with the US and South Korea to deal with the matter.