North Korea slams 'outrageous' missile test sanctions

A North Korean envoy today demanded the immediate lifting of sanctions imposed by Japan in response to the North’s missile tests, calling the measures outrageous, Kyodo News agency reported.

Following North Korea’s test-firing on Wednesday of seven missiles into the Sea of Japan, the Japanese government barred a North Korean ferry from Japanese ports and imposed a number of other measures that stop short of full-scale economic sanctions against the country.