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US Threatens New Sanctions Over Missile Tests
On Monday, the Japanese Defense Ministry confirmed that the North Korean authorities had fired three ballistic missiles from Hwangju county in the direction of the Sea of Japan.
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Warning of the risk of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, France’s U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre told reporters that “weakness is not an option” and urged “quick and firm” council action.
In early August, China’s position on the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in South Korea delayed a press statement, according to a United Nations official who spoke anonymously to Yonhap.
South Korea and the U.S.
North Korea rejects the ban as infringing its sovereign right to pursue a space programme and self defence and has nevertheless conducted a fourth nuclear test and a series of missile tests this year in defiance of United Nations sanctions.
The council met Tuesday behind closed doors at the urgent request of the U.S., Japan and South Korea.
“So we are going to work diligently together with the most recent United Nations sanctions that are already placing North Korea under the most intense sanctions regime ever”, Obama said.
Ms Power said North Korea has carried out 22 missile launches so far this year and the latest hit “within 300 kilometres of Japan’s coast”.
North Korea on Wednesday rejected a UN Security Council statement condemning the reclusive state for its latest missile tests and threatening to take “further significant measures”.
South Korea’s Deputy Ambassador Hahn Choong-hee said the worldwide community must send a “clear and unequivocal message” that if the North Koreans continue to violate global commitments and sanctions, “they will face much stronger” and “significant countermeasures from the worldwide community”.
The U.S. and South Korea both provide humanitarian assistance for the Syrian people and for refugees, Obama said.
Kim was guiding a fire drill of his military aimed at checking the “capabilities of the units” and the accuracy of the “improved ballistic rockets deployed for action”, it added.
South Korea said in July that it will deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or Thaad, missile-defense system from the USA by the end of 2017, a move China opposes. North Korea has conducted a series of missile tests this year. They also required mandatory inspections of cargo leaving and entering North Korea by land, sea or air and a ban on all sales or transfers of small arms and light weapons to Pyongyang.
“If they continue to provoke and violate worldwide commitment and sanctions they will face much stronger and insurmountable, and significant counter measures”.
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Asked whether China agreed more significant measures needed to be taken, permanent United Kingdom representative to the U.N., Matthew Rycroft, said: “We’re talking to all of our council colleagues”.