Reports: NKorea missile launchers came from China

Japan has evidence vehicles that could be used for transporting and launching missiles were exported to North Korea by a Chinese company in possible violation of United Nations' trade restrictions on weapons technology, Japanese media reported Wednesday.

Four of the vehicles were shipped from Shanghai to North Korea last August aboard the Harmony Wish, a Cambodian-flagged cargo vessel, according to the reports.

The reports said Japanese authorities had been tracking the ship by satellite, and searched it when it transited the port of Osaka the following month.

Read more