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North Korea Launches Satellite Violating U.N Resolutions

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North Korea announced Sunday that it has put a satellite into orbit. The government also said in a special announcement read on state-run North Korean TV said that it will launch more satellites.
           
Critics say the launch of the long-range rocket is meant to test banned technology for a missile that could strike the U.S. mainland.
 
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg strongly condemned the launch, calling it a "direct violation" of five U.N. Security Council resolutions.
           
Stoltenberg said in a statement that the five resolutions "call for North Korea to suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile" program, to "re-establish its pre-existing commitments to a moratorium on missile launching and not to conduct any further nuclear test or any launch using ballistic missile technology."
           
He said that "NATO continues to call on the North Korean authorities to comply with their obligations under international law, not to threaten with or conduct any launches using ballistic missile technology and to refrain from any further provocative actions."
           
The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting Sunday on the North Korean launch. The U.S., which confirmed the meeting, requested council members to meet along with Japan.
 
South Korea and Washington have agreed to begin talks on a possible deployment of the THADD missile defense system in South Korea.
           
A Defense Ministry official says the talks on THADD are aimed at bolstering South Korea-U.S. defenses in the face of escalating North Korean threats.
           
Sunday's launch follows North Korea's claim last month to have tested a hydrogen bomb and will likely draw more sanctions and condemnation in the United Nations.
 

 

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