U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, third to the right, holds a meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, third to the left, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo of the Republic of Korea, second to the right, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, left, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, right, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, second to the left, to consult North Korea’s recent ballistic missile launch at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Haiyun Jiang/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called an emergency gathering of several allies on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific economic summit on Friday, emerging with leaders of five other nations to condemn North Korea after it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.
North Korea carried out the missile test just hours before the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum opened in Bangkok and Harris met to discuss it with leaders from Australia, Japan, South Korea, Canada and New Zealand.
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