The UN Security Council on Friday slammed North Korea for defying UN resolutions with a series of test-firings of submarine-launched and other ballistic missiles beginning in July.
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North Korea’s defiant pursuit of weapons development continues despite the United Nations imposing its toughest-ever sanctions on Pyongyang in March.
The statement referred to Wednesday’s launch as well as other North Korean ballistic missile launches since July 9.
Following the test, the UN Security Council agreed on Friday to “take further significant measures” against North Korea, without elaborating.
Those sanctions reflected growing anger at Pyongyang’snuclear test in January and a subsequent rocket launch.
According to South Korea’s Yonhap Agency, North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) at around 5:30 am that flew about 500 kilometers and fell into Japanese waters.
A South Korean military official said, “Kim Jong Un has the tendency to visit the testing site of new weaponry”.
A South Korean army soldier watches a TV news program showing images published Thursday in North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea’s ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater.
The UN Security Council made an official statement regarding the recent missiles launches by North Korea.
“The best way for the U.S.to escape a deadly strike from us is by refraining from insulting our dignity and threatening our security, by exercising prudence and self-control”, Jon told AP. But this is no information about whether actual submarine construction has begun, it added.
It said the activities have further raised the anger of North Korean soldiers at a time when the Korean Peninsula has reached the “brink of war” due to the start of annual joint military drills between the United States and South Korea on Monday last week that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.
The council was unable to agree after Beijing pressed for language in a statement opposing the THAAD missile defense system that the United States plans to deploy in South Korea.
Stressing “the importance of working to reduce tensions in the Korean peninsula and beyond”, member states expressed “their commitment to a peaceful, diplomatic and political solution to the situation”.
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