North Korean rocket puts object into space, angers neighbors and US

Meanwhile the US State Department confirmed that US Secretary of State John Kerry had called the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan to discuss North Korea’s rocket launch.

The Security Council said its members were consulting on a resolution that would impose tougher and more robust sanctions on North Korea, in hopes of altering its behavior.

“The members of the Security Council strongly condemn this launch”, Venezuelan U.N. Ambassador Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, the council’s president for February, told reporters on Sunday while reading a press statement after the closed-door meeting.

The border violation came a day after Pyongyang announced a successful launch of an observation satellite into orbit, in breach of UN Security Council resolutions that ban the DPRK from testing any ballistic missile technology.

For its part, North Korea said it plans on continuing to launch satellite-carrying rockets into space, despite Sunday’s nearly immediate worldwide backlash. According to Reuters, the United States strategic command made the discovery of North Korea’s rocket launch.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation said the launch was in “direct violation” of five UN Security Council resolutions. They also confirmed the missile has already entered space, stationing new worries that it could be an actual ballistic technology test in the making. Even China, the North’s lone ally, articulated its disapproval in a statement from its foreign ministry.

Japanese envoy Motohide Yoshikawa also called for heavier sanctions, saying “the existing sanctions have not stopped North Korea from developing nuclear weapons“.

Diplomats say Washington is closely consulting with Japan, South Korea, Britain and France on its discussions with China, while Beijing is keeping in close contact with fellow veto power Russian Federation.

The UN Security Council is set to have an emergency meeting on Sunday about the rocket launch. If North Korea ever foolishly decides to launch a missile at the United States, the GMD system will protect the American people and our homeland.

China’s anxiety over the THAAD battery in South Korea has illustrated how hard it is for South Korea and China to develop common security interests in Northeast Asia, despite their booming economic relations.