Trump says Pyongyang ‘disrespected the wishes of China & its highly respected President.

Seoul: North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile Saturday in apparent defiance of a concerted US push for tougher international sanctions to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons ambitions.

The latest launch, which South Korea said was a failure, came just hours after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned the UN Security Council of “catastrophic consequences” if the international community — most notably China — failed to pressure the North into abandoning its weapons programme.

Military options for dealing with the North were still “on the table”, Tillerson warned in his first address to the UN body.

The launch ratchets up tensions on the Korean peninsula, with Washington and Pyongyang locked in an ever-tighter spiral of threat, counter-threat, and escalating military preparedness.

US President Donald Trump, who has warned of a “major conflict” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s regime, said the latest test was a pointed snub to China — the North’s main ally and economic lifeline.

“North Korea disrespected the wishes of China & its highly respected President when it launched, though unsuccessfully, a missile today. Bad!” Trump tweeted.

The US is deploying a naval strike group led by an aircraft carrier to the Korean peninsula, and a missile-defence system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) that officials say will be operational “within days”.

North Korea recently conducted its biggest-ever firing drill and has threatened to “bury at sea” the US aircraft carrier, and there are signs it could be preparing for a sixth nuclear test.

South Korea’s defence ministry said it suspected Saturday’s missile test had failed after a brief flight, while the US military’s Pacific Command confirmed the rocket did not leave North Korean territory.


Risk of nuclear attack ‘real’

China pushed back at Tillerson’s call at the UN Security Council for it to do more to rein in Pyongyang, arguing that it was unrealistic to expect one country to solve the conflict.

“The use of force does not solve differences and will only lead to bigger disasters,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.

His country, he said, should not be “a focal point of the problem on the peninsula” and stressed that “the key to solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula does not lie in the hands of the Chinese side”.
Russia joined China in saying a military response would be disastrous and appealing for a return to talks and de-escalation.

Military action was “completely unacceptable”, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told the council, and a miscalculation could have “frightening consequences”.

But Tillerson argued that diplomacy had to be backed with credible muscle.
“Diplomatic and financial levers of power will be backed up by willingness to counteract North Korean aggression with military action, if necessary,” he said.

“The threat of a North Korean nuclear attack on Seoul or Tokyo is real, and it is likely only a matter of time before North Korea develops the capability to strike the US mainland.”

China wants talks
The meeting of the top UN body on Friday laid bare major differences among key powers over the way to address the North Korea crisis.

Over the past 11 years, the Security Council has imposed six sets of sanctions on Pyongyang — two adopted last year — to significantly ramp up pressure and deny the North Korean regime the hard currency revenue needed for its military programmes.

But UN sanctions experts have repeatedly told the council the measures have had little impact because they have been poorly implemented.

Tillerson called on all countries to downgrade or sever diplomatic relations with North Korea and impose targeted sanctions on entities and individuals supporting its missile and nuclear program.

The United States is ready to impose sanctions on third countries where companies or individuals are found to have helped North Korea’s military programmes, he said.

China instead wants Pyongyang to freeze its military programmes in exchange for a halt to US-South Korean annual drills.
“Now is the time to seriously consider talks,” said Wang.

But Tillerson was blunt in saying it was up to North Korea to take the first concrete steps.
“We will not negotiate our way back to the negotiating table,” he said. “We will not reward their bad behaviour with talks.”

The United States, Russia and China took part in six-party talks on North Korea’s denuclearisation from 2003 to 2009, along with Japan, South Korea and Pyongyang.

source:https://larryshotspot..com.ng/2017/04/north-korea-fires-missile-defying-us.html

North Korean should take things easy so that this war they are beaten the drum will not consume them

World War III. Our people over there never wan dey come back

The dog that is destined to die will not hear the from its master,that fat baby elephant just want to waste many souls

The dog that is destined to die will not hear the call from its master,that fat baby elephant just want to waste many souls

Ghen-Ghen!

May 13th loading. I hope this won't happen.



World War III

When Trump -during his presidential campaign— said that America will increase it nuclear war heads and Russian promised to do the same, he should have known that he was calling for a nuclear arm race, but come to think of it, does or should any country have a monopoly over nuclear weapon, so why all this noise about North Korea, America and others promised to increases theirs, Israel; and others have it, why stopping North Korea this is international hypocrisy lead by America.

Rilwayne001:
When Trump -during his presidential campaign— said that America will increase it nuclear war heads and Russian promised to do the same, he should have known that he was calling for a nuclear arm race, but come to think of it, does or should any country have a monopoly over nuclear weapon, so why all this noise about North Korea, America and others promised to increases theirs, Israel; and others have it, why stopping North Korea this is international hypocrisy lead by America.

as the Giants (America, Russia and China) are increasing the warheads, hence the need to be protecting their investments (South korea, Japan, Eastern blocks nations, Crimea, Iran, Isreal North korea and so on) from one another

With China around the corner,whatever sanction that is voted on North Korea is dead on arrival. They get all the fuel,food and hardware from China. Plus China does not really have the sort of control that we think it has over a paranoid Pyongyang. The truth.

Rilwayne001:
When Trump -during his presidential campaign— said that America will increase it nuclear war heads and Russian promised to do the same, he should have known that he was calling for a nuclear arm race, but come to think of it, does or should any country have a monopoly over nuclear weapon, so why all this noise about North Korea, America and others promised to increases theirs, Israel; and others have it, why stopping North Korea this is international hypocrisy lead by America.

That Is my main problem with the US. You want To develop nukes but you don't Want others to do so. Whyyyyyy!

@Rilwayne001 the thing is that the Americans don't trust certain countries with nuclear weapons. They see North Korea as an unstable regime that can not be trusted with such weaponry and as such will go to any length to de-nuclearize it. Do not also forget that South Korea,America's ally(puppet State) if you like must also be protected at all cost from a North that still nurses ambitions to re-invade and annex it. So you see?