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World leaders condemn North Korea over missile launches

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Call made for emergency UN security council meeting after action shocks international community and angers Japan and South Korea

A U-2 ultra-high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the US air force lands at Osan airbase, south of Seoul, on Monday.
A U-2 ultra-high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the US air force lands at Osan airbase, south of Seoul, on Monday. Photograph: Yonhap/EPA

Monday 6 March 2017 16.13 EST First published on Monday 6 March 2017 14.23 EST

A shocked international community has condemned North Korea after it launched four ballistic missiles on Monday morning, three of which fell into Japanese waters.

Calling on Pyongyang to “stop its provocative actions”, the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said the launches were in violation of multiple UN security council resolutions and threatened international peace and security. Tiếp tục đọc “World leaders condemn North Korea over missile launches” →

US, Japan, S Korea request UN Security Council meeting on N Korea

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  • Posted 13 Feb 2017 08:38
  • Updated 13 Feb 2017 08:40

Passengers watch a TV screen broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, February 12, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

WASHINGTON: The United States, Japan and South Korea on Sunday (Feb 12) requested an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss North Korea’s latest missile test.

“The United States, along with Japan and the Republic of Korea, have requested urgent consultations on the DPRK’s launch of a ballistic missile on February 12,” said a US mission spokesperson.

The test was seen as a challenge to Donald Trump’s young presidency.

The request comes after North Korea’s state media quoted officials as saying the ballistic missile test was a “success”.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “guided” the test, the KCNA report said, adding it was carried out in a way that took the “security of the neighbouring countries into consideration”. Tiếp tục đọc “US, Japan, S Korea request UN Security Council meeting on N Korea” →

North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile, Challenging Trump

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By CHOE SANG-HUN FEB. 11, 2017

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Trump denounced North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test, while Senator Chuck Schumer of New York said China should “put the wood to North Korea.”

By REUTERS and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Photo by Ahn Young-Joon/Associated Press. Watch in Times Video

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea off its eastern coast on Sunday, in what South Korea called the North’s first attempt to test President Trump’s policy on the isolated country.

A projectile believed to be a modified version of the North’s intermediate-range ballistic missile Musudan took off at 7:55 a.m. from Banghyon, a town near North Korea’s northwestern border with China, and flew 310 miles before falling in the sea, the South Korean military said. Earlier, the United States Strategic Command issued a statement identifying the missile as a medium- or intermediate-range system that “did not pose a threat to North America.”

South Korea condemned the missile launching, saying that it violated a series of United Nations Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from developing or testing ballistic missile and nuclear weapons technologies. It also said the North had launched the missile to raise tensions over its weapons programs and to use it as leverage in dealing with the Trump administration.