UK Rebukes North Korea Ambassador Over Rocket

America’s highly deployable THAAD system fires anti-ballistic missiles into the sky to smash into enemy missiles either inside or outside the Earth’s atmosphere during their final flight phase.

Pyongyang claims it used a Kwangmyongsong rocket to put a satellite into orbit on Sunday, but Washington and Seoul believe that’s just a cover story to obscure the Hermit Kingdom’s latest demonstration of ballistic missile technology that could be used to deliver a nuclear weapon.

Any deployment is likely to be strongly resisted by China which is known to be uneasy about anti-missile hardware so close to its borders.

Cook declined to state when exactly the US and South Korea would move forward with the talks.

North Korea’s recently launched satellite is “tumbling in orbit”, according to USA officials – making the object useless.

All three condemned the launch, and agreed it represented “yet another destabilizing and provocative action by North Korea in flagrant violation of numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions”, the White House said.

In an interview on CBS, Obama said he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping a few days before the launch “about the need to really tighten the noose” on North Korea and bring about a verifiable denuclearization of the peninsula.

“This is an authoritarian regime”.

China expressed “opposition” to North Korea’s nuclear test last month.

Analysts say China’s top priority is to maintain stability in North Korea, rather than denuclearizing the isolated ally.

Park received a phone call from the USA president at about 11:20 a.m. local time, making an in-depth discussions about the DPRK’s nuclear test and ballistic missile launch, Park’s office said.

It was not immediately clear whether the South Korean and Japanese chiefs of staff would participate in the meeting in person or via secure video teleconference, the sources said.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command said Sunday that the rocket never posed a threat to North America. In a commentary Monday, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said a deployment could trigger a regional arms race.

Sunday’s launch came weeks after North Korea conducted a fourth nuclear test. Both acts violate existing United Nations Security Council resolutions.

“There are some things that haven’t yet been touched upon, like North Korean labor exported overseas, which brings in a lot of foreign currency for the North Korean government”, she said.