North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan
North Korea fired a ballistic missile at Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to activate its missile warning system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter. The latest launch, which the United States called “reckless and dangerous,” comes in a record year of sanctions-violating weapons tests by North Korea, which recently revised its laws to declare itself an “irreversible” nuclear power. The last time Pyongyang fired a missile at Japan was in 2017, at the height of a period of “fire and fury” when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchanged…