Breaking news .....Korea missile test successful ....
North Korea rocket launch
The announcement of talks over the
Terminal High Altitude Area Defence THAAD came just hours after North Korea
announced that it had successfully put a new Earth observation satellite into
orbit . North Korea adversaries believe the real purpose of the launch was to
test a ballistic missile just one month after its fourth nuclear test . The launch of a long range rocket by North Korea has heightened tensions in north east Asia and pushed South Korea and the US into talks on the deployment of a controversial high altitude missile defence system that China and Russia both bitterly oppose .
Following an emergency meeting on Sunday night the United Nations Security Council condemned the rocket launch and said it would soon adopt a new sanctions resolution in response .
A statement said that launches using ballistic
missile technology even if characterised as a satellite launch or space launch
vehicle contribute to North Korea development of systems to deliver nuclear
weapons .
It added that using ballistic missile
technology was a violation of four Security Council resolutions dating back to
2006 .
The launch was widely condemned including by the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond who said North Korea actions continue to present a threat to regional and international security . But China and Russia both stressed the importance of finding a diplomatic solution .
If deployed THAAD would usher in a new era of Star Wars in north east Asia . South Koreans have long been lukewarm about US insistence on the need to deploy multibillion dollar missile launchers capable of shooting down enemy missiles hurtling more than 100 miles overhead .
One of South Korea's objections has been concern about offending Beijing, which has repeatedly expressed alarm about THAAD and its potential for use against China.
But China's tepid response to North Korea's fourth underground nuclear test on 6 January as well as this weekend's missile launch has convinced South Korea's President Park Geun-hye of the need for strong measures, and South Korea and the US said they would seek to deploy the system "at the earliest possible date".
China expressed "regret" over the launch, saying North Korea had "ignored universal opposition of the international community". While North Korea "should have the right to the peaceful use of space", an official Chinese response said, "this right is limited by the United Nations Security Council resolutions."
Analysts saw that statement as a pro forma reaction that indicated China would not support calls in the United Nations for strengthening current sanctions - or, indeed, for enforcing the sanctions already in place after the previous missile launch in 2012 and after North Korean nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013.
"Nothing's going to happen," said Tom Coyner, a Seoul-based business consultant. "The debate in the UN will go nowhere. Nobody will do anything."
Ms Park reflected South Korean outrage as well as frustration, declaring that North Korea had "committed an unacceptable provocation of launching a long-range missile after conducting a fourth nuclear test" and demanding that the UN Security Council "quickly come up with strong sanctions."
South Korea's Foreign Minister, Yun Byung-se, said he might go to New York to try to drum up support at the UN. He also planned to talk on the phone to the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Japan's Foreign Minister, Fumio Kishida.
In North Korea, the launch was met with praise, with the National Aerospace Development Administration, describing "the fascinating vapour of Juche satellite trailing in the clear and blue sky". It said the launch was timed to coincide with the 16 February birthday of its former "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il.
Japan threatened fresh retaliation against North Korea over the rocket, which flew over Okinawa in Japan's far south-west, triggering a military alert.
"We absolutely cannot allow this," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. "We will take action to protect the safety and well-being of our people." Mr Abe said he had instructed his staff to prepare options for unilateral sanctions, a tacit admission that his government's policy of cautious engagement with the regime of Kim Jong-un has failed. Mr Abe's government deployed destroyers and missile interceptors around Tokyo and on remote islands around Okinawa, in a largely symbolic show of strength against the launch.
The launch was widely condemned including by the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond who said North Korea actions continue to present a threat to regional and international security . But China and Russia both stressed the importance of finding a diplomatic solution .
If deployed THAAD would usher in a new era of Star Wars in north east Asia . South Koreans have long been lukewarm about US insistence on the need to deploy multibillion dollar missile launchers capable of shooting down enemy missiles hurtling more than 100 miles overhead .
One of South Korea's objections has been concern about offending Beijing, which has repeatedly expressed alarm about THAAD and its potential for use against China.
But China's tepid response to North Korea's fourth underground nuclear test on 6 January as well as this weekend's missile launch has convinced South Korea's President Park Geun-hye of the need for strong measures, and South Korea and the US said they would seek to deploy the system "at the earliest possible date".
China expressed "regret" over the launch, saying North Korea had "ignored universal opposition of the international community". While North Korea "should have the right to the peaceful use of space", an official Chinese response said, "this right is limited by the United Nations Security Council resolutions."
Analysts saw that statement as a pro forma reaction that indicated China would not support calls in the United Nations for strengthening current sanctions - or, indeed, for enforcing the sanctions already in place after the previous missile launch in 2012 and after North Korean nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013.
"Nothing's going to happen," said Tom Coyner, a Seoul-based business consultant. "The debate in the UN will go nowhere. Nobody will do anything."
Ms Park reflected South Korean outrage as well as frustration, declaring that North Korea had "committed an unacceptable provocation of launching a long-range missile after conducting a fourth nuclear test" and demanding that the UN Security Council "quickly come up with strong sanctions."
South Korea's Foreign Minister, Yun Byung-se, said he might go to New York to try to drum up support at the UN. He also planned to talk on the phone to the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Japan's Foreign Minister, Fumio Kishida.
In North Korea, the launch was met with praise, with the National Aerospace Development Administration, describing "the fascinating vapour of Juche satellite trailing in the clear and blue sky". It said the launch was timed to coincide with the 16 February birthday of its former "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il.
Japan threatened fresh retaliation against North Korea over the rocket, which flew over Okinawa in Japan's far south-west, triggering a military alert.
"We absolutely cannot allow this," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. "We will take action to protect the safety and well-being of our people." Mr Abe said he had instructed his staff to prepare options for unilateral sanctions, a tacit admission that his government's policy of cautious engagement with the regime of Kim Jong-un has failed. Mr Abe's government deployed destroyers and missile interceptors around Tokyo and on remote islands around Okinawa, in a largely symbolic show of strength against the launch.
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