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U.N. Condemns North Korean Missile Tests
The U.N. Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved a resolution placing sanctions on North Korea for its missile tests earlier this month (see GSN, July 14). The limited measure demands that Pyongyang “suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile program,” resume its moratorium on missile tests and return to the six-nation nuclear talks. It also prohibits all U.N. member states from trading missile or WMD-related technologies with North Korea. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton warned that if Pyongyang failed to comply with the resolution, the council could take additional action. North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Pak Gil Yon called the council vote “unjustifiable and gangster-like.” “The delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea resolutely condemns the attempt of some countries to misuse the Security Council for the despicable political aim to isolate and put pressure on the D.P.R.K., and totally rejects the resolution,” he said. The Korean People’s Army “will go on with missile launch exercises as part of its efforts to bolster deterrent for self-defense in the future, too,” he said. Bolton said the Security Council “sends an unequivocal, unambiguous and unanimous message to Pyongyang: suspend your ballistic missile program, stop your procurement of materials related to weapons of mass destruction, and implement your September 2005 commitment to verifiably dismantle your nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs” “The council has acted swiftly and robustly in response to the reckless and condemnable act of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” said Japan’s vice minister for foreign affairs, Shintaro Ito (Edith Lederer, Associated Press/Buffalo News, July 15).
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