Japan has lodged a protest with North Korea over its test-firing of a ballistic missile Wednesday, calling the launch "intolerable" and a "clear violation" of U.N. Security Council resolutions that ban the reclusive state from testing ballistic missile technology. "Japan resolutely will not tolerate these repeated provocative acts by North Korea. Japan has lodged a stern protest with North Korea and strongly condemns the act," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the government's top spokesman, told an emergency press conference. Foreign Ministry Fumio Kishida told reporters that the test-firing poses a "new level ... (full story)