Solution for North Korea's Missile Launch

[bluesky79]

North Korea went on with launching the missile despite UN's security acts. This launch is apparently a test for putting a satellite in the orbit, but that is very suspicious considering North Korea's previous habits of developing weapons and their constant obsession over missile development. Their close ally China even asked them to refrain from such extreme actions but North Korea went on with the launch, wasting millions of dollars. This ridiculous wasteful act occurred two times already, and we can notice from this that Kim Jong Un has a very aggressive and ostentacious attitude, wanting to show off his vigor to the world. The international community must rise against this act using more aggressive sanctions and other effective methods to prevent North Korea from repeating their mistakes.
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[waltky]

North Korean Rocket Can Hit US...

North Korea rocket 'has 10,000km range'
23 December 2012 - South Korea has retrieved parts of the Unha-3 rocket

North Korea's recent rocket launch shows it has the ability to fire a rocket more than 10,000km (6,200 miles), South Korean officials say. The estimate, which would potentially put the Western US in range, was based on an analysis of rocket debris. However, there was no confirmation that the North had the re-entry technology needed to deliver a missile. Experts believe North Korea is also years away from gaining the ability to mount a nuclear bomb on a missile.

North Korea launched the Unha-3 rocket on 12 December, in defiance of sanctions and international warnings. It was the first time the North had made successful use of a three-stage rocket to put a satellite into orbit, and observers said it appeared to mark a step towards fielding an intercontinental range ballistic missile. "As a result of analysing the material of Unha-3 (North Korea's rocket), we judged North Korea had secured a range of more than 10,000km in case the warhead is 500-600kg," a South Korean defence ministry official told journalists.

'Crude'

The official said the type of oxidiser container that was found from the first stage of the rocket launch would rarely be used by countries with advanced space technology. "Welding was crude, done manually," the official said. South Korea would not be able to tell whether the North had the technology to achieve re-entry until debris from the second and third stages of the rocket launch was analysed, the defence ministry said. "As the additional pieces are salvaged, we will be able to look deeper into the function and structure of North Korea's long-range rocket," an official was quoted as saying by South Korea's Yonhap news agency. Experts believe many more rocket and nuclear tests will be necessary before North Korea can boast a credible delivery system. North Korea insists the rocket it launched is part of a civilian space programme. But BBC Asia analyst Charles Scanlon says the North clearly wants its threat to be taken seriously, believing this to be the best way of deterring potential aggression, boosting the prestige of its leader, and being granted equal diplomatic status.

The North has been happy declare itself a nuclear power, he adds, and it frequently threatens neighbouring countries, and the US, with massive retaliation for perceived slights. The UN Security Council condemned this month's rocket launch. It said it violated two UN resolutions banning Pyongyang from missile tests, passed after it conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. The rocket was celebrated extravagantly in North Korea, with a mass rally held in the capital, Pyongyang. The North's leader, Kim Jong-un, called for the development and launching of "a variety of more working satellites" and "carrier rockets of bigger capacity" at a banquet to mark the launch on Friday, North Korean state media reported.

BBC News - North Korea rocket 'has 10,000km range'

 

[waltky]

Lil' Kim rattlin' his sabre...

N. Korea Threatens South with 'Final Destruction'
February 19, 2013 — North Korea threatened South Korea with "final destruction" during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after a nuclear test last week.

"As the saying goes, a new-born puppy knows no fear of a tiger," North Korean diplomat Jon Yong Ryong told the meeting. "South Korea's erratic behavior would only herald its final destruction." Jon's comments drew quick criticism from other nations, including South Korea, France, Germany and Britain, whose ambassador Joanne Adamson said such language was "completely inappropriate" and the discussion with North Korea was heading in the wrong direction. "It cannot be allowed that we have expressions which refer to the possible destruction of U.N. member states," she said.

Spanish Ambassador Javier Gil Catalina said the comment left him stupefied and appeared to be a breach of international law. "In the 30 years of my career I've never heard anything like it and it seems to me that we are not speaking about something that is even admissible, we are speaking about a threat of the use of force that is prohibited by Article 2.4 of the United Nations charter," Catalina said. Since the North tested a nuclear bomb last week in defiance of U.N. resolutions, its southern neighbor has warned it could strike the isolated state if it believed an attack was imminent.

Pyongyang said the aim of the test was to bolster its defenses given the hostility of the United States, which has led a push to impose sanctions on North Korea. "Our current nuclear test is the primary countermeasure taken by the DPRK in which it exercised its maximum self-restraint," said North Korean diplomat Jon. "If the U.S. takes a hostile approach toward the DPRK to the last, rendering the situation complicated, [North Korea] will be left with no option but to take the second and third stronger steps in succession," he said, without indicating what these steps might entail. North Korea has already told key ally China that it is prepared to stage one or two more tests this year to force the United States into diplomatic talks, a source with direct knowledge of the message told Reuters last week.

'Offensive'

 

[Katzndogz]

Negotiation and diplomacy is the democrat solution. It just doesn't work.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - sanctions gonna bite `em hard...

North Korea threatens nuclear strike, U.N. expands sanctions
7 Mar.`12 - North Korea threatened the United States on Thursday with a preemptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric just before the U.N. Security Council approved new sanctions against the reclusive country.

The White House said North Korea's threats would only lead to Pyongyang's further international isolation and declared that the United States was "fully capable" of defending against any North Korean missile attack. China's U.N. Ambassador Li Baodong said Beijing wanted to see "full implementation" of the new U.N. Security Council resolution that tightens financial restrictions on Pyongyang and cracks down on its attempts to ship and receive banned cargo. North Korea has accused the United States of using military drills in South Korea as a launch pad for a nuclear war and has scrapped the armistice with Washington that ended hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War.

A North Korean general said on Tuesday that Pyongyang was scrapping the armistice. But the two sides remain technically at war as the civil war did not end with a treaty. North Korea threatens the United States and its "puppet," South Korea, on an almost daily basis. "Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest," the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

North Korea conducted a third nuclear test on February 12, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, and declared it had achieved progress in securing a functioning atomic arsenal. It is widely believed that the North does not have the capacity for a nuclear strike against the mainland of the United States. With tensions high on the Korean peninsula, the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to expand its sanctions on North Korea. The new sanctions were agreed after three weeks of negotiations between the United States and China, which has a history of resisting tough measures against its ally and neighbor.

The resolution specifies some luxury items North Korea's elite is not allowed to import, such as yachts, racing cars, luxury automobiles and certain types of jewelry. This is intended to close a loophole that had allowed countries to decide for themselves what constitutes a luxury good. "These sanctions will bite and bite hard," said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice.

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North Korea vows nuclear attack on US, saying Washington will be 'engulfed in a sea of fire'
March 07, 2013 - North Korea amplified its threatening rhetoric as the U.N. Security Council approved new sweeping sanctions, vowing to launch a first-strike nuclear attack against the United States and threatening to engulf Washington in a "sea of fire."

An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for "a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors" because Washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against the North. At a mass rally in Pyongyang on Thursday, Army Gen. Kang Pyo Yong told the crowd that North Korea is ready to fire long-range nuclear-armed missiles at Washington. "Intercontinental ballistic missiles and various other missiles, which have already set their striking targets, are now armed with lighter, smaller and diversified nuclear warheads and are placed on a standby status," Kang said. "When we shell (the missiles), Washington, which is the stronghold of evils, .... will be engulfed in a sea of fire."

White House spokesman Jay Carney said at a briefing that the U.S. is fully capable of defending itself after a North Korean missile attack. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice reacted to the warnings Thursday, saying North Korea will "achieve nothing" with threats. "North Korea will achieve nothing by continued threats and provocations. These will only further isolate the country and its people and undermine international efforts to promote peace and stability in northeast Asia," Rice said.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously endorsed a fourth round of sanctions against Pyongyang in a fresh attempt to rein in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The vote Thursday by the U.N.'s most powerful body on a resolution drafted by North Korea's closest ally, China, and the United States sends a powerful message to North Korea that the international community condemns its ballistic missile and nuclear tests -- and its repeated violation of Security Council resolutions. The new sanctions are aimed at making it more difficult for North Korea to finance and obtain material for its weapons programs.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/0...-on-us-ahead-un-sanctions-vote/#ixzz2Mte0YTok

 

[ThirdTerm]

New sanctions on North Korea have as little chance of stopping Pyongyang from developing a deliverable nuclear weapon as previous efforts, unless China gets more serious about enforcing them, nuclear experts and China watchers say. Bruce Klingner, former deputy chief for Korea in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence under President Clinton, said China is part of he problem. "In the past, China agreed to resolutions but didn't enforce them in China," said Klingner, now a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Klingner says China has recently been more vocal publicly about its displeasure with North Korea's recent missile and nuclear tests. Even so, Beijing has refused to help enforce previous sanctions it signed off on, he said. Klingner says he does not see the new sanctions as being enforced any differently.

China key to enforcing U.N. sanctions on N. Korea