North Korean rocket: outcry of the international community – Challenges.fr

Korea North announced Sunday, February 7, have succeeded in placing in orbit a satellite with a rocket launch widely condemned as a disguised ballistic missile test, for the development of weapons capable of hitting US territory. This shot, which violates several UN resolutions, generated immediate international outcry when the UN Security Council was to meet emergency in New York. The main official reactions:

China “Regarding the insistence of (the Korea North) to implement the missile launch technology, despite international opposition, China expresses regret. Pyongyang has the right to peaceful use of space, but this right is limited by relevant resolutions of the UN security Council. All stakeholders must address this situation calmly. ” (Declaration of Hua Chunying, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on the website of the Ministry) China is the main ally of importance and the main trading partner of the Korea North but bilateral relations have been strained in recent years due to the North Korean nuclear program

the United States. “programs nuclear and ballistic weapons from North Korea represent a serious threat to our interests – including security of some of our closest allies – and threaten peace and security in the region “(Press Susan Rice, Councillor national Security President Barack Obama)

“France condemns with the utmost firmness the further flagrant violation by Korea North of security Council resolutions. the launch of the rocket occurred that night, a month after a nuclear test is a senseless provocation. France calls for a rapid and severe reaction of the international community in the Security Council today “(Press the Elysee)

UK . The government UK condemns “strongly” the launch of a rocket by Pyongyang and called for a “strong response if North Korea continues to violate” the resolutions of the United Nations security Council. (press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release sent AFP)

the UN Secretary General Bank Ki-moon the Korea North conducted a shot using ballistic missile technology in violation of the relevant security Council resolutions, despite the unanimous call of the international community against such an initiative. I reiterate my call to the Korea North to stop its provocative actions and to respect its international obligations again. and I reaffirm my commitment to work with all stakeholders in order to ease tensions and achieve a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. ” (News)

Russian : “It is obvious that such actions lead to a serious aggravation of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia as a whole “and” is very harmful to the security of countries in the region, especially in the first place of the Korea North itself. the path chosen by Pyongyang can only raise a strong protest. We urgently recommend to the north Korean leadership to ask whether the policy to oppose the international community is in the interest of the country. ” Russia, which is one of the few allies of the increasingly isolated regime in the world with which it shares a border, added that Pyongyang had once again shown “reckless disregard for the rules of international law”. (Of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs)

(With AFP)