Kim Jong-Un labelled North Korea’s latest missile tests “perfect”, state media said yesterday, as he called for the isolated state to build up its nuclear arsenal. She said “improving the rights of North Koreans will be a crucial stepping stone towards national reunification, and reunification will provide opportunities for North Koreans to be treated equally”.
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The statement further said 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 gave no indication of what “further significant measures” it might take.
The ministry praised what it saw as “an expression of unified determination” from the UNSC, given the required consent of China and Russian Federation.
US President Barack Obama has vowed to work with the United Nations to tighten worldwide sanctions against North Korea, a day after Pyongyang launched another round of ballistic missiles into the sea, APA reports quoting Press TV.
North Korea in the meantime, appears to be making its own attempt at diplomacy.
Park Geun-Hye showed his full support for U.S.’ plan to impose a set of sanctions for North Korea’s most recent actions.
“We very much favor a quick and firm reaction by the Security Council to this new provocation”, he said.
Details of the three-way meeting are being discussed between the nations, the insider said.
But she also said that there will be no need to have the THAAD system if North Korea’s nuclear and missile problems are resolved, according to her office Cheong Wa Dae.
In a meeting to consider a response to the tests, the 15-member Council said the launches were “in grave violation” of North Korea’s global obligations and UN Security Council resolutions, warning it would closely monitor the situation.
The statement was adopted in an emergency meeting of the council, which was jointly called for by Japan, the United States and South Korea. Such activities “contribute to the DPRK’s development of nuclear weapons delivery systems, and they raise tension”. Both leaders suggested they would continue to push China, North Korea’s only ally in the region, to use its influence to intervene.
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Tuesday’s statement marked the council’s second response to North Korean missile launches in two weeks, and it was unanimously agreed upon in the three hours after the Security Council held urgent consultations. The statement that was eventually released did not include the language.
