S. Korea condemns N.K. missile launch

SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) — South Korea strongly condemned North Korea for its botched launch of another intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday, vowing to further pressure Pyongyang to give up its nuclear and missile programs.

The communist state fired off the missile early Thursday, but the launch seems to have failed, according to military officials here. The launch came less than two weeks after the North’s failed launch of a similar missile.

“We strongly condemn the launch, which is a provocative act that is a clear violation of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and a threat to the peace and security of Northeast Asia and beyond,” Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said in a press release.

The ministry said that it would take steps at the level of the UNSC and further strengthen sanctions and pressure on the North.

“We once again strongly urge the North to realize that its efforts to advance its nuclear and missile programs will hasten its self-destruction,” the ministry added.

The UNSC, which is currently chaired by China, has already issued press statements to condemn Pyongyang’s test of a ballistic missile on April 15 and its launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Saturday.

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1. Younghyun Kim

   April 29, 2016 at 12:56 AM

   As a weak worldling, I want to call for your Korean-English newpapers to let your poor north korean political prisoners set free, and also, have those all enjoy the sense of freedom and justice to the fullest, and moreover, prop up their long-cherished democracy they wholes dreamed of and wished for a long, long time since the two koreas were divided into its sadness territory and the bloodshed-weakened land mde by the worst’s military regime-intended revenge + povocations + all sorts of its unimaginable unpardnable atrocities against your South Korea and me-like weak world people and iternational society.

   Needless to say, you all’s unstoppable concentration + collaboration + cooperation + an array of concerted unity need to be, and also, must be slated for its basic pan-national task. That erratic and flagrant Kim jongun’s gangs have no choice but to bring forward their tyranny regime’s all systems. And all your krean people and me-like world world worldlings will just see if those gangs’ ends or terminal destiny will be the when or the day and where those all’s inevitable tombs are.

   ^^^ We all have our each’s spare time and do our best to make a better world, maintain and ensure its turning points of settling in a vital and innate value of a pure human being in opposition to bowing down on to Money + the power + all kinds of snobbery or philistilnism doings which had been doing destructing this world, . . ., and so on.^^^ This weak and uneducated world worldling hopes to meet a lot of this era’s real/vital enlightened people and a strong President who can lead this world to the right direction. Good luck to this world!

   2016. 04. 29. in Seoul, Suwon, Incheon, and Sokcho from a pure
   world wayfarer.

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