Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in the early hours of Thursday that he and U.S. President Donald Trump have "completely agreed" to strengthen pressure on North Korea after the North fired a ballistic missile over Japan into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.
Japan also pushed the United States on Wednesday to propose new United Nations Security Council sanctions that diplomats said might target the reclusive state's laborers working abroad, oil supply and textile exports
"I cannot tell you about our forthcoming response to North Korea, but we have just completely agreed on it," Abe told reporters at his office after speaking with Trump by telephone, the second such call since the missile launch on Tuesday morning.