Responsibility Authority: Missile Tests and State Media

responsibility authority: Hagerty, a private equity investor, is assuming his new role at a time when the security alliance between the two nations is considered especially crucial as North Korea's frequent missile tests roil regional tensions, according to The Japan Times. Last week, North Korea's state media said the country is developing a plan to test-fire intermediate ballistic missiles into seas near Guam, a plan it eventually shelved after an exchange of fiery rhetoric between Pyongyang and Washington. I expect to see us strengthening our position in the face of the increasing threat here in this region, and I also expect to see further involvement of Japan and further responsibility and authority of Japan, he said, speaking to reporters after arriving at Narita airport near Tokyo in late afternoon. ; Our partnership with Japan is ironclad and our ability to defend ourselves becomes even stronger as we work more closely together, he said. Asked about the current situation, Hagerty said all options are on the table. We await that, we look forward to that, and I expect that that would come. I don't see any options being taken off the table by the United States, and I see the pressure by the international community mounting even greater against this regime until they begin to dial back their rhetoric, and their dialogue becomes something much more reasonable, he said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.