North Korea Missile Launch- Pressure Mounts to Abandon Objects in Space

The United Nations Security Council on Sunday unanimously predestined North Korea's launch of a long-range missile as a violation of U.N. resolutions banning missile tests and promised "significant" new sanctions. The Security Council with 15 members including the United States, China and Russia, said even though North Korea characterized the rocket test as a satellite launch, it was clearly an effort to develop a missile and violated four U.N. resolutions dating to 2006. Pyongyang claims the rocket was designed simply to launch a satellite named as Kwangmyongsong-4 into space for scientific purposes. But following its fourth nuclear test in early January, world leaders see it as only an attempt to fulfill Kim Jong Un’s explicit desire to make North Korea a nuclear- able state.

Reports from the U.S Strategic Command had confirmed missile launch from North Korea. No damage caused yet, the U.S Strategic Command had said to destruct the missile over the Yellow Sea before it flew outside the range of its radars. As heard about the missile launch by North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged his country would “take action to protect the safety and well-being of our people.” South Korean President Park Geun-hye called the launch an “intolerable provocation” that was “all about maintaining the regime” in its stated desire to develop long-range nuclear weapons. The U.S. and South Korea have agreed to organize new meetings to strengthen South Korea’s missile defense system. Beijing criticizes the announcement Monday as an unnecessary provocation and has summoned the South Korean ambassador to China, according to sources.

The U.S. government has not officially confirmed the North Koreans successfully deployed a satellite, though a technician for North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) told the Associated Press the new spacecraft orbited directly over the location. The North's move came less than a day after the country moved up the window for its planned launch to Feb. 7-14 from Feb. 8-25. North Korea had claimed itself to launch nuclear explosive devices in 2006, 2009, 2013. Once only in 2012, the nation had successfully delivered a satellite, last time before the Sunday actions.