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China and Russia last week vetoed a US-led push to impose more UN sanctions on North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches.

Kim said North Korea's latest missile launch is designed to demonstrate the might of its nuclear force and deter any US military moves.

The test confirms the military is capable of a precision strike if needed against the location of any North Korean missile launch.

The suspected missile was fired from an airfield outside the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, according to South Korea's defence ministry.

It was the second such launch in a week to test satellite equipment, and the ninth missile launch this year.

The launch was the eighth test this year, and the first since January when nuclear-armed North Korea fired off a record number of missiles.

After nearly six years of research by international investigators, four defendants went on trial in March over the downing of flight MH17, which killed all 298 aboard.

North Korea's missile launches and Donald Trump's Twitter tirades does not mean the threat of mutually-assured destruction in an all-out thermonuclear annihilation is not real.

Wisma Putra in a statement said Malaysia expressed serious concern that the ballistic missile has yet again traversed the sovereign territory of Japan, posing a direct threat to its national security.

Officials said activity around missile launch sites suggested North Korea planned more missile tests.

In a statement, the council stressed that those North Korea actions are not just a threat to the region, but to all UN member states.

The missile launched early Tuesday appeared to be a Hwasong-12, the intermediate-range ballistic missile that North Korea has been threatening to shoot into the waters near the U.S. territory of Guam.

The launch and its previous missile launches "have raised tensions in the region and further jeopardised the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula."

Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement Friday described the abhorrent act, reportedly launched by the Houthis of Yemen could threaten the safety of pilgrims.

The Dutch state, as a signatory to the 1948 Genocide Convention, has a duty to take all reasonable measures at its disposal to prevent genocide.

Moves by Trump and his appointees to eliminate existing rules will be met with legal challenges, as many progressive groups and Democratic officials have made clear.

Consultations on PTPTN loans and admission to IPTA are among services provided at the Higher Education Ministry booth.

Almost 200 residents from 60 homes in Kampung Tanjung Kala have ended up stuck when their 200-metre (m) long concrete bridge flooded.

The draft finance deal criticised by both developed and developing nations.

This was following the discovery of a suspected prohibited item in luggage.

Kelantan has reminded the public in the state to refrain from outdoor activities with the arrival of the Northeast Monsoon season.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern was given a global leadership award by the United Nations Foundation.

The decision of the ICC to issue arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is apt, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KTMB will provide two additional ETS trains for the KL Sentral-Padang Besar route and return trips in conjunction with the holidays.