The press statement urged all United Nations member states “to redouble their efforts” to implement sanctions against Pyongyang, including the toughest measures in two decades imposed by the council in March. He said that “in a slower time, we should look at that question about sanctions or what other further significant measures we might think about”. The “previously expressed determination” refers to the wording of a 2013 UNSC resolution.
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The UN Security Council condemned North Korea’s launching of three ballistic missiles as President Barack Obama called on the world body Tuesday to tighten sanctions and further isolate a nation widely viewed as an worldwide pariah.
Obama believes the us and Korea have to be vigilant in sanctions enforcement, aides said.
Obama said the latest round of ballistic missile launches were “provocations” that flouted global law and would only lead to further isolation.
Park, meanwhile, said North Korea was “fundamentally threatening the security” of the Korean Peninsula.
Power said there had been “numerous” voices in the council meeting calling “for doing more”.
Japan is making a new emergency system that will issue faster alerts if North Korea launches any missiles, according to reports Wednesday.
A senior US official called the launches “reckless” and a threat to civil aviation and local maritime commerce, and a USA statement strongly condemned the launches, which came as China, North Korea’s only global ally, hosted the G20 summit.
This “justifies” North Korea’s military conducts during 2016, in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions reformed in March.
North Korea fired three missiles into the sea off its east coast as the leaders of the major G20 economies met in China on Monday.
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday “strongly condemned” the launches in a statement, saying the acts were “in flagrant disregard” of the Council’s statements and caused increased tensions by contributing to the country’s development of its nuclear weapons systems.
But despite the global chorus of disapproval and tough sanctions, Pyongyang is unrepentant – continuing to ignore the worldwide community’s calls for a halt to its weapons programme. Tokyo has protested to North Korea via the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, CBS 8 reported.
Japan’s UN Ambassador Koro Bessho said he was encouraged that in Tuesday’s council meeting “there was much stronger show of unity” than in past discussions.
North Korea fired three ballistic missiles that were believed to be medium-range Rodong-class. The statement that was eventually released did not include the language.
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.
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Washington and Seoul argue it’s necessary to protect America’s treaty ally from its belligerent northern neighbor, but China says the system’s range could extend to its territory.
