A week after North Korea’s rocket launch, the U.N. Security Council on Monday condemned the action, demanded an end to missile tests and said it will expand sanctions against the reclusive communist nation.
The council’s statement, agreed on by all 15 members and read at a formal meeting of the United Nations’ most powerful body, said the launch violated a council resolution adopted after the North conducted a nuclear test explosion in 2006 that banned any missile tests by the country.
The statement was a weaker response than a U.N. resolution, which was sought by Japan and the United States but was opposed by China and Russia. U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice insisted the statement is legally binding, just like a resolution, but other diplomats and officials disagreed.
North Korea warned earlier that any move to censure it at the U.N. could prompt its withdrawal from negotiations on dismantling the communist regime’s nuclear weapons program. The North’s talks with the U.S., China, Japan, South Korea and Russia are currently stalled.
(Source: Fox News)
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North korea is devastated that they were condemned. This condemnation will certainly scare them off from doing something like this again.Diplomacy diplomacy diplomacy… Does anyone think that they would have done this rocket launch if Bush was still president?
#1- Why do you think they waited? They know that some people refuse to believe the tiger’s not a harmless kitty cat until it’s too late, and they want to take advantage of that.