𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑲𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 “... 𝒂𝒊𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄 𝑶𝒄𝒆𝒂𝒏.” 

If that's provocative, then we've been equally so, because that's precisely where we conduct our ABM tests too.

The last I looked, nobody controls space and nobody owns the Pacific Ocean.

Matthis is correct when he says these NK launches are no direct, immediate threat to either us or Japan.  The NK missiles were still boosting and climbing, and already in space, when they overflew Japan.  And they landed far away in international waters.

We don't have the capability to intercept them anyway until after they've started to coast.