Theresa May refused to rule out participating in tougher measures to put pressure on North Korea over its missile programme, as she travelled to Japan where she will hold talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about the threat posed by the isolated Communist nation.
The British prime minister’s three-day visit began on Wednesday barely 36 hours after the most provocative of North Korea’s recent tests, in which it fired a ballistic missile across Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, where residents were warned to take shelter.
Speaking to reporters en route to Kyoto, Mrs May said the trip would afford her the opportunity to talk to Mr Abe “at length” about the challenge posed by North Korea’s increasingly aggressive programme of missile tests.
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