Abe Gets Trump Backing After North Korea Missile Launch

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While North Korea routinely test-fires missiles -- including more than two dozen last year -- the timing of these launches is particularly sensitive.
Trump tells Abe on call he wants Japan?s people to trust himPresident Donald Trump reaffirmed U.
S.
backing for its military ally Japan in a phone call with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a day after North Korea fired four ballistic missiles into the sea near Japan.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang on Monday said China opposed both North Korea?s missile launch and the deployment of Thaad.
Abe said he confirmed with Trump that the threat from North Korea reached a ?new level? for Japan, which relies on the ?nuclear umbrella? of the U.
S.
to protect it from regional threats.
?President Trump told me that the U.
S.
is 100 percent with Japan and that he wanted me to convey his words to the people of Japan,? Abe told reporters in Tokyo after the call early Tuesday.