UN condemns North Korea missile launch, pledges significant new sanctions

South Korea’s Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se is also planning to visit the United Nations headquarters in NY this week to urge the Security Council to bring forth tougher resolutios against Pyongyang, Yonhap said in another report, citing the ministry.

The launch is a serious violation of Security Council resolutions 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), and 2094 (2013), it said.

The launch is widely viewed as a covert ballistic missile test to advance the development of delivery vehicles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

Here, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned North Korea’s nuclear ambitions were a “threat to regional and global security”.

North Korea, under leader Kim Jong-un, has pledged to bolster its nuclear arsenal unless Washington scraps what Pyongyang calls a hostile policy meant to collapse the hermit state’s government.

The members of the Security Council additionally recalled that they’ve beforehand expressed their willpower to take “additional vital measures” within the occasion of one other North Korean launch.

While China summoned North Korea’s ambassador to protest Pyongyang’s satellite launch on Sunday, it also summoned the South Korean ambassador to protest THAAD’s deployment.

As French Ambassador Francois Delattre was saying much the same thing on the stairs leading to the Security Council chamber, Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi squeezed past him and the media.

South Koreans watch a TV news program with a file footage about North Korea’s rocket launch at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea on Sunday.

Sunday’s rocket took off at around 9am Pyongyang time from the North’s west coast, according to South Korea’s defence ministry.

“New Zealand again calls on North Korea to refrain from actions which undermine peace and stability in the region”, he said.

Mr Hammond said the latest test did not mark a change in approach from North Korea, but was a continuation of “destabilising” behaviour.

A lot of countries condemned the launch, including North Korea’s allies, China and Russian Federation.

“Today’s missile launch, which follows a recent nuclear test, is a clear violation of UN Security Council Resolutions”.

There have been several bloody naval skirmishes around the Northern Limit Line, which is regularly patrolled by South Korea.