North Korea has once again fired a missile over Japan.
According to The Guardian, at 6:57 a.m. local time Friday, the rogue nation launched a missile, which flew over Hokkaido before it plunged into the sea approximately 1,200 miles off the coast of the Japanese island.
The missile triggered a “J-Alert,” a warning system advising residents to “take shelter,” and avoid possible debris.
In response to the sanctions, North Korea’s state news agency issued a statement calling for the U.S. to be reduced “into ashes and darkness,” and “beaten to death like a rabid dog.” Japan was specifically mentioned as well, as it is part of the U.N. Security Council: “The four islands of the [Japanese] archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche,” the statement said.
CNN notes that the U.N. Security Council sanctions “were prompted by North Korea’s sixth nuclear test that occurred on September 3, which Pyongyang said was a successful test of a hydrogen bomb.”