Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
'Flagrant disregard': UN condemns North Korean missile launches
Source: The Guardian
'Flagrant disregard': UN condemns North Korean missile launches
Security council threatens ‘further significant measures’ against
Pyongyang if regime continues to develop missile and nuclear
weapons technology
Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday 7 September 2016 00.28 BST
The United Nations security council has strongly condemned North Korea’s latest launch of three ballistic missiles, and threatened “further significant measures” if the Pyongyang regime continued its missile and nuclear weapons development work.
Diplomats at the UN said that this latest rebuke of North Korea was agreed unusually quickly, reflecting China’s anger at the missile launch on Monday as President Xi Jinping was hosting the G20 summit in Hangzhou.
Despite the bluntly worded statement, describing North Korea’s “flagrant disregard” of its demands, there are no immediate plans to begin discussions on new sanctions. The focus will instead be on fuller implementation of the last round of sanctions imposed in March. The US and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan – those most immediately threatened by Pyongyang’s military capabilities – are particularly keen to see China enforcing sanctions more robustly.
“We are going to work diligently together with the most recent UN sanctions that are already placing North Korea under the most intense sanctions regime ever,” Barack Obama said in Laos after a meeting with his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye.
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
Security council threatens ‘further significant measures’ against
Pyongyang if regime continues to develop missile and nuclear
weapons technology
Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday 7 September 2016 00.28 BST
The United Nations security council has strongly condemned North Korea’s latest launch of three ballistic missiles, and threatened “further significant measures” if the Pyongyang regime continued its missile and nuclear weapons development work.
Diplomats at the UN said that this latest rebuke of North Korea was agreed unusually quickly, reflecting China’s anger at the missile launch on Monday as President Xi Jinping was hosting the G20 summit in Hangzhou.
Despite the bluntly worded statement, describing North Korea’s “flagrant disregard” of its demands, there are no immediate plans to begin discussions on new sanctions. The focus will instead be on fuller implementation of the last round of sanctions imposed in March. The US and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan – those most immediately threatened by Pyongyang’s military capabilities – are particularly keen to see China enforcing sanctions more robustly.
“We are going to work diligently together with the most recent UN sanctions that are already placing North Korea under the most intense sanctions regime ever,” Barack Obama said in Laos after a meeting with his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye.
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/06/grave-violation-un-strongly-condemns-north-korean-missile-launches
