The South’s Yonhap news agency said the medium-range missiles flew for about 600 miles (1,000 km) and landed inside Japan’s air defence identification zone.
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“The members of the Security Council agreed that the Security Council would continue to closely monitor the situation and take further significant measures in line with the Council’s previously expressed determination”, it added.
If a three-way summit is held, Japan also wants to promote negotiations toward concluding a trilateral free trade agreement, cooperate on disaster prevention and further promote sports exchanges.
Leader Kim Jong-Un described the August test as the “greatest success” and said it put the USA mainland within striking range.
Lewis pointed to another way North Korea can potentially bypass THAAD’s defenses: via a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
Pyongyang has conducted a fourth nuclear test and a series of missile tests this year in defiance of United Nations sanctions, prompting South Korea to announce plans to deploy a U.S. anti-missile system to counter such threats.
South Korea put its latest high-tech weaponry on show Tuesday as tensions rise in the region following Pyongyang’s test-firing of three missiles this week.
Last month, it fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile from the northeastern port of Sinpo.
“We are going to work together to ensure that we are closing loopholes and making them more effective”, Obama said speaking of sanctions against North Korea after meeting with Park in Laos.
In June, after a string of failures, North Korea sent an intermediate Musudan missile more than 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) high in a test launch that outside analysts said showed progress in efforts to acquire the ability to strike US forces in the region.
South Korea’s Park said that her neighbor’s “continued missile launches are fundamentally threatening the security of both the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”. With each test, she said, North Korea demonstrates further advancement of its ballistic missile program whose aim according to the country’s leader Kim Jong Un is “to arm the systems with nuclear weapons”.
Japan’s U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho made the appeal Tuesday as he headed into closed emergency consultations called by the USA and Japan in response to Monday’s launches.
The tests not only threaten Japan’s national security but the region and beyond, he said, stressing that the missiles were launched without any prior notification and could have hit planes or ships.
After his meeting with Park, Obama said if North Korea committed to denuclearization then the “opportunities for us to dialogue with them are there”.
Threats to tighten sanctions and the imposition of unilateral US measures against leader Kim Jong Un have so far failed to stop the North from pursuing its nuclear weapons program.
Extended deterrence refers to America’s stated commitment to defend its ally by mobilizing all military capabilities, nuclear and conventional, to cope with North Korea’s aggression and provocations. Afterward, standing side-by-side, their ambassadors spoke to reporters. But he didn’t mention any further council action.
“So without getting ahead of the council we were also interested in increasing the consequences after this pattern of using these launches to advance the capabilities of the program”, she said.
United Nations resolutions bar North Korea from any use of ballistic missile technology. It requires countries to freeze the assets of companies linked to the North’s nuclear and missile programs.
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It called for stepped-up implementation of sanctions against North Korea.
