March 9, Thursday, 2017 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Yuka Matsumoto and Ms. Hiroko Kitadai

1. The U.N. Security Council has reached an agreement to ensure a steady implementation of its sanctions against North Korea, and to take fresh action pending further developments.
2. Japan’s government says one of the ballistic missiles launched by North Korea on Wednesday came the closest ever to the country’s coast.
3. An NHK survey of former residents of Fukushima who fled the 2011 nuclear disaster has found that dozens of children were bullied at their new schools.