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N. Korea violates UN resolution with failed missile launch

November 30, 2015
South Korean men pass by a TV news program showing images published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 9, 2015. North Korea said Saturday it has successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine in what would be the latest display of the country's advancing military capability. The letters on the screen read "The missile believed to have been launched from underwater near Sinpo". (AP Photo/Ahn Young-oon)

South Korean men pass by a TV news program showing images published in North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea’s ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 9, 2015. North Korea said Saturday it has successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine in what would be the latest display of the country’s advancing military capability. The letters on the screen read “The missile believed to have been launched from underwater near Sinpo”. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-oon)

By Brian Han

Nuclear weapons testing represents the one contingency that truly holds back North Korea from improving international relations.

Yet over the weekend, the communist nation showed its disregard by testing a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that failed to even leave the water in which it was fired.

A South Korean government intelligence agency monitoring the country’s military technological advancements picked up on the attempt on Saturday located in the East Sea.

The last time the North tested such a missile occurred back in May.

“Under U.N. resolutions, North Korea is prohibited from developing or testing any kind of ballistic missile,” Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told reporters in a briefing according to Yonhap. “It practically constitutes a U.N. resolution violation,” Kim said.

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  2. Darren Campeau

    December 1, 2015 at 2:42 AM

    Gee, what a shock, NK went rogue.

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