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Security Council Condemns North Korean Missile Tests 136 days ago
(RTTNews) - The United Nations Security Council has condemned recent missile tests by North Korea, describing them a threat to regional and international security, while urging the pariah state to fully comply with its obligations and relevant U.N. resolutions, including 1718 and 1874, reports say.
Ambassador Ruhakana Rugunda of Uganda, who chairs the council this month, told reporters following two hours of closed-door consultations of the 15-nation Council, the launches "constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and pose a threat to regional and international security."
Rugunda said Council members had "condemned and expressed grave concern" over Saturday's launches, and expressed their commitment to "a peaceful, diplomatic and political solution."
He said the firing of seven ballistic missiles Saturday--U.S. Independence Day--violated three existing resolutions. U.N. resolutions ban the Stalinist state from all ballistic missile-related activities.
U.N. sanctions were strengthened after Pyongyang carried out a second underground nuclear test in May. Under Resolution 1874 enforced last month, North Korea is banned from exporting weapons and importing only small arms. The resolution, which does not authorize the use of force, also calls for tighter inspections of cargo suspected of containing banned missile and nuclear-related items, a stricter arms embargo and new targeted financial curbs to choke off revenue for the nuclear and missile sectors.
It also says that the North should "not conduct any further nuclear test or any launch using ballistic missile technology" and abandon all nuclear weapons and programs "in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner." The Obama administration also extended sanctions against Pyongyang by a year.
Japan's Ambassador, Yukio Takasu, who had requested the Security Council meeting, welcomed the council's statement. Both South Korea and Japan called the launchings as "acts of provocation".
The missile launches off the east coast from a base near Wonsan, in Gangwon province, were apparently timed to coincide with the Independence Day in the United States--a similar volley was fired on the same day in 2006.
Saturday's seven Scud-type ballistic missiles, which splashed into the Sea of Japan, had a range of about 312 miles (500km). The launching came two days after the DPRK test-fired four short-range missiles off its eastern coast.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Gary Roughead, said the launches were "very unhelpful". His comments came as the North Korean ship Kang Nam 1--the first ship to be shadowed under U.N. sanctions imposed last month--suspected of smuggling missiles or related parts, is reported to have turned around and is believed to be heading back to the communist state after being tracked by U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS John S. McCain.
Relations between North Korea and the international community at large have grown extremely tense since it disassociated itself from six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear program. It subsequently said it would "weaponize" its plutonium stocks and start enriching uranium, prompting fears that it is working to produce nuclear warheads small enough to put aboard missiles.
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