“We do not have any interest in an offensive approach to North Korea”. They agreed to respond together to the North’s missile provocations.
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Council members warned North Korea to “refrain from further actions, including nuclear tests, in violation of the relevant Security Council resolutions”, and to comply fully with Pyongyang’s obligations under those resolutions.
At the same, however, China voiced its disapproval Monday of a South Korea-U.S. missile shield in the region.
“We are going to work diligently together with the most recent United Nations sanctions”, Obama told reporters after meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
“I would note there were very strong and numerous voices in the room for doing more”, Samantha Power, the USA ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters.
On Monday, the North-Korean government launched three missiles into the sea, near the Bali Coastline The nuclear bombs were launched from a southern part of the capital Pyongyang. Experts say they they were Scud-ER missiles, which have a range of about that distance.
Earlier, the United States called for action to enforce Security Council resolutions on North Korea prohibiting ballistic missile-related activities.
The latest missile tests threaten the security of both South Korea and Japan, as some of them were found to have landed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone in the East Sea.
Hahn Choong-hee, ambassador and deputy permanent representative of South Korea to the United Nations, said the missile launches were posing a serious threat to the region. The document was adopted unanimously, including by Pyongyang’s only ally China.
Park told reporters that North Korea’s acts were “fundamentally threatening” and that she and Obama had agreed to “respond resolutely” to the defiance of worldwide demands that North Korea end its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
In spite of tough global sanctions, Pyongyang continues 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.
“Most military targets in Japan are in range of missiles like the latest one”.
Last month, North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile from the northeastern port of Sinpo. The tests not only threaten Japan’s national security but the region and beyond, he said.
Still, Obama said he was open to dialogue with North Korea.
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President Obama, left, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye shake hands after speaking to the media at the conclusion of a bilateral meeting in Vientiane, Laos, on September 6, 2016.
