Security Council Agrees on Condemnation of North Korean Missile Launches

After failing to adopt a statement condemning North Korean missile activities earlier this month due to Chinese opposition, the United Nations Security Council have now adopted a statement deploring all North Korean ballistic missile activities.

Following a series of North Korean missile launches during the year, which have continued despite repeated condemnations from the United Nations Security Council, the Security Council have adopted yet another condemnation. The condemnation concerns the latest missile launch, conducted from a submarine on the 23rd of August, but highlights the repeated violations by North Korea, and includes condemnations of previous launches during the summer.

Earlier this month, Stop Illegitimate Vetoes reported that the Security Council were in disagreement over the formulation of a draft statement condemning the North Korean missile launch that landed in Japanese-controlled waters. That statement was not passed partly due to Chinese opposition to the explicit mention of the missile’s landing place, and partly due to China’s request for the inclusion of a sentence urging parties not deploy anti-ballistic systems in the region, which the United States and Japan did not accept as they have recently launched such a system. The condemnation adopted this week did not include such language.[/fusion_text][fusion_text]

[/fusion_text][fusion_text]Sources:
Reuters: U.N. Security Council condemns North Korean missile launches
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-un-idUSKCN11203I 

UN News Center: Security Council strongly condemns DPRK missile launches
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54768#.V8L6JvmLTIU 

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