The White House said Tuesday it strongly condemns North Korea’s latest test of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, urging the communist regime to refrain from such provocations and focus on meeting its global obligations. Tension in Northeast Asia has been high since North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed that with a satellite launch and test launches of various missiles.
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“The president that USA citizens must vote for is not that tiresome Hillary – who claimed to adapt the Iranian model to resolve nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula – but Trump, who spoke of holding direct conversation with North Korea”.
“We obviously are hopeful that that pressure will lead to some different strategic decisions being made by the North Korean government, but thus far, it has not”, he said.
China hopes all parties on the Korean peninsula will remain calm and exercise restraint, President Xi Jinping told a senior visiting North Korean envoy on Wednesday, after the isolated state rattled nerves with a failed missile test.
Korean and Japanese government sources said the missile blew up during the launch.
The first Musudan test launch on April 15 failed when the missile exploded in flight, and two more tests later that month resulted in the missile falling to the ground far short of its intended target or exploding in mid air.
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“North Korea’s repeated ballistic missile launches are serious, provocative acts against the global community, including Japan”, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told a regular press briefing.
China “attaches great importance” to friendly and cooperative relations with North Korea and is willing to make joint efforts to safeguard, consolidate and develop the ties, Xinhua quoted Xi as saying.
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Earlier this month, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un proposed holding military talks with South Korea to ease tensions but Seoul dismissed the offer, saying it wasn’t honest given that Pyongyang was continuing to develop a nuclear arsenal. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry warned Tuesday that North Korea will face stronger sanctions if it doesn’t stop provocations. The North has deployed about 50 Musudan missiles with its forces since 2007, but none of them had been test-fired until this year.
