United Nations strongly condemns latest North Korean missile launches

Power said that since the new sanctions were imposed in March North Korea had carried out 10 ballistic missile tests.

The indigenous Musudan missile, which North Korea refers to as the Hwasong-10, could theoretically reach US troops based as far as Guam.

It was all smiles for North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and his underlings as they celebrated creating a missile which could allegedly strike the U.S. in the Pacific.

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North Korea has “no thoughts” of resuming six-party talks on its nuclear programme, a top Pyongyang official said on Thursday in Beijing, despite the repeated urgings of its closest ally China. One of two missiles launched Wednesday reached an altitude of over 1,000km and flew 400km, suggesting it was on a lofted trajectory, or a higher but shorter path.

Power told reporters as she headed into the council meeting that North Korea’s repeated defiance of worldwide law “underscores how important it is for us to come together to ensure consequences for this inherently destabilizing behavior, and this inherent and consistent and repeated threat to global peace and security”.

Indian intelligence agencies are now monitoring the nuclear trade between Pakistan and North Korea.

“I do think that the impact of these provocations will be to only strengthen the resolve of the worldwide community that has such serious concerns with North Korea’s behavior”, White House spokesman Josh Ernest told reporters.

The sanctions – the toughest yet against North Korea – were imposed after it conducted a fourth nuclear test on January 6, followed by a long-range rocket test February 7.

“North Korea is diverting resources to the pursuit of ballistic missiles”.

“As far as we are aware, this story is inaccurate”, a State Department Spokesperson said yesterday when asked about a recent news report that Pakistan was selling nuclear materials to North Korea in violation of the UN Security Council sanctions and that China knew it. The red, white and blue item, believed to be half of the nose cone created to protect the rocket’s payload, was found on a beach in western Japan last Thursday and is suspected to come from a long-range, three-stage rocket fired by North Korea on Feb 7 that flew over Japan’s southwest Okinawa island chain.

He also said the three countries noted the North’s provocations would only strengthen the resolve of the worldwide community. South Korean authorities recovered the other half.