“If anybody on the council needed a reminder of why that resolution is so important and why banding together to enforce global peace and security is so important, the north Korean regime just provided yet another one”, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said ahead of the meeting.
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The North has claimed that its rocket launch was to send a satellite into orbit, but outside experts view the North’s move as a cover for a banned test of ballistic missile technology.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Pyongyang to “halt these inflammatory and escalatory actions”.
Existing UN sanctions ban North Korea from the use of any ballistic missile test, although short-range launches tend to go unpunished.
The Foreign Ministry said the two sides will discuss pressuring the North comprehensively through the faithful implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2270, each country’s unilateral sanctions and united worldwide pressure on the regime.
“The Members of the Security Council reiterated that the DPRK shall refrain from further actions in violation of the relevant Security Council resolutions and comply fully with its obligations under these resolutions”, said the statement.
For now it is clear, the council has had enough with North Korea’s disregard for the worldwide law and has spoken out against their launch.
According to BBC World News, the U.N. Security Council spoke out against North Korea on March 19, 2016.
Picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un guiding the construction of Ryomyong Street in Pyongyang.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff had said the missile flew about 500 miles before it fell into the water, and that a second missile disappeared from the radar at an altitude of 11 miles before possibly detonating mid-air before reaching its target.
This month the 15-member Security Council imposed harsh new sanctions on North Korea to starve it of money for its nuclear weapons program.
South Korea’s defence ministry said Friday’s launches were clearly the result of Kim’s order.
A senior U.S. defence official said the missile appeared to be a Rodong type fired from a road-mobile launcher.
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Earlier this week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered multiple ballistic missile launches and a nuclear warhead test.
