“Malaysia urges North Korea to desist from conducting further launches and to comply fully with the relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions, with a view to maintaining regional and worldwide peace and security”, Wisma Putra said in a statement, today. Such activities “contribute to the DPRK’s development of nuclear weapons delivery systems, and they raise tension”. This “justifies” North Korea’s military conducts during 2016, in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions reformed in March.
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It noted that the council would be taking significant measures in line with its “previously expressed determination” to halt Pyongyang’s activities.
Japan is calling on the U.N. Security Council to send a “united and clear” message to North Korea condemning its firing of three ballistic missiles that traveled about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan.
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said North Korea’s actions showed its “blatant disregard” for its worldwide obligations and “its willingness to provoke and to threaten the global community”.
Members of the Security Council including China were quick to denounce the missile tests that took place while Beijing was hosting the G20 meeting in Hangzhou, Yonhap reported.
Amb. Sung Kim’s trip, set for September 10-13, comes after North Korea test-fired three medium-range ballistic missiles on Monday in the latest in a series of missile firings in defiance of the worldwide community. This news story is related to Print/148399-North-Korea-missile-tests-deepen-isolation-Obama/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.
During their summit meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Laos on Tuesday, President Park Geun-hye and her USA counterpart Barack Obama reaffirmed that the two allies would mobilize all possible means to counter Pyongyang’s continued provocations.
“He stressed the need to continue making miraculous achievements in bolstering up the nuclear force one after another in this historic year”, the report added.
“There are no plans at this time for Ambassador Kim to meet with Choe Son-hee”, a department official said.
(Closing) “Following bilateral talks with her US and Japanese counterparts on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, President Park has stepped up the pressure to jointly counter North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats”.
The missiles were fired from areas around Hwangju county, in North Hwanghae province, toward the Sea of Japan.
The Rodong is a scaled-up Scud variant with a maximum range of around 1,300 kilometres, bringing most of Japan within range.
North Korea has been under United Nations sanctions since 2006.
“The most obvious difference from the last test is the change in warhead”, Hanham said. Issued just eleven days after a statement on Pyongyang’s recent submarine-launched ballistic missile test, the new statement says all members are deeply concerned about the launches that were carried out in “flagrant disregard” of its demands.
While the impoverished North’s motives for keeping tensions on the front burner all year aren’t clear, there is speculation that leader Kim Jong Un is still trying to consolidate power almost five years after taking over following his father’s death.
“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, without elaborating.
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The missile test occurred on the closing day of a G-20 summit, hours after South Korea’s president met with her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in an effort to persuade him to drop his country’s opposition to the planned deployment of the anti-missile battery known as THAAD. He demanded President Park make a bold decision to amend the Constitution, noting that an amendment won’t be possible without her support.
