The Chinese foreign ministry has called on North Korea to suspend its missile tests, and on the United States and South Korea to halt their annual joint military exercises. Spokeswoman Hua Chunying delivered the official government statement.
The situation is “now at a tipping point approaching a crisis. At the same time there is an opportunity to reopen peace talks,” Hua told a regular news briefing.”
Hua noted that previous military exercises and economic sanctions have not pressured North Korea into changing its belligerent behavior. She again renewed a call for direct peace talks among the parties involved.
In response to the launch, President Trump reiterated that “all options are on the table.” The official White House statement maintained the tough U.S. approach to the rogue regime.
The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior.”
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe weighed in as well, calling the missile launch an “unprecedented, serious and grave threat.”
Abe and President Trump discussed the situation in a 40-minute phone call last evening. Both agreed to bring the matter to the United Nations for further consideration and action.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley had a tough message of her own, asking for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.
Haley said “something serious has to happen,” adding, “enough is enough.”
The U.S. Department of Defense is assessing the launch to determine what it might mean about North Korean capability to reach the United States with a similar missile.
In 1998, North Korea fired a missile that flew through Japanese airspace. It’s believed yesterday’s launch was the first to pass over Japan at a high-altitude trajectory.
When news broke this summer that North Korea may have mastered the means to create a miniaturized nuclear warhead for its missiles, President Trump warned that the regime would suffer “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if the missile development and threats to the U.S. and its allies continue.
As the rate things are going, North Korea may have passed a “tipping point” a long time ago. Clearly, “enough is enough.”
Source: Channel News Asia, CNBC
Deal with this$#%&!@*hole before it’s too late
Take no prisoners. He is playing shell games until he loads a shell with a nuke.
let Jaapn and China deal with NK! it’s not our circus.
Why was it not shot down???
This little POS knows he will survive retaliation because he has 18 miles of underground nuclear shelter complete with a train, plus planes waiting to take him to China. I am afraid Russia, China, and Iran are agitating this Tub of Lard into firing on America so they can use their Nuclear weapons against us when we retaliate. Russia has moved Nuclear weapons to the area and China has said they will stand with NK if we attack, as will Iran. Merkel also said Germany will not stand with the USA. They know Obama almost destroyed our military and nuclear capabilities and now is the time to hit while we are vulnerable. Plus the division and violence the Soros/Obama paid mercenaries are causing within our borders to try and take down our government from within and overthrow our President.
Good question!
Fire n fury like his$#%&!@*has never seen
it’s time we flattened that country I would start by removi g all citizens from south Korea Japan and put to g do many missiles their and start a atomic c blast to level all of north Korea