Tokyo - Japan's parliament on Tuesday condemned what it regards a ballistic missile test by North Korea over the weekend.
The lower house also called on the government implement further sanctions against the Stalinist state and urged the UN Security Council to pass a resolution against North Korea.
Meanwhile the five permanent members of the Security Council in New York continued their tug-of-war over a resolution on what North Korea claimed was the launch of a communications satellite.
Washington, Apr. 7: The US State Department has said that the failure of the U. N. Security Council or other international organizations to respond to a weekend rocket launch by North Korea does not signal a "win" for that rogue nation.
According to a Fox News report, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the international community is working closely on a coordinated response, and the severity of the violation only puts North Korea farther out on a limb by itself.
New York - The five veto-wielding powers and Japan continued wrestling Monday over Japan's insistence on a sharpened UN resolution against North Korea for testing a ballistic missile over the weekend.
The UN ambassadors from the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain held their second negotiating session with Japan since Sunday, when a three-hour session of the full Security Council ended with no results.
Washington - The United States warned Monday of "difficult diplomacy" in finding agreement on a strong, effective international reaction to North Korea's defiant launching of a missile over the weekend.
"The issue's a bit complicated, as you know, and it's going to take time," Robert Wood, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, told reporters. "It's not something, I would suspect, that we could resolve in the next day or so. It's going to take time."
Tehran - Tehran Monday distanced itself from Pyongyang's rocket launch, urging countries in that "sensitive region" to stay calm and apply their efforts to securing peace and stability.
North Korea launched a rocket on Sunday, in defiance of warnings from the US and its Asian neighbours, saying it was putting a communications satellite called Kwangmyongsong-2 into orbit.
Japan, South Korea and Washington believe the launch was a screen to test a ballistic missile.
Tokyo - Japan's parliament on Tuesday condemned what it regards a ballistic missile test by North Korea over the weekend.
Washington, Apr. 7: The US State Department has said that the failure of the U. N. Security Council or other international organizations to respond to a weekend rocket launch by North Korea does not signal a "win" for that rogue nation.
New York - The five veto-wielding powers and Japan continued wrestling Monday over Japan's insistence on a sharpened UN resolution against North Korea for testing a ballistic missile over the weekend.
Washington - The United States warned Monday of "difficult diplomacy" in finding agreement on a strong, effective international reaction to North Korea's defiant launching of a missile over the weekend.
Tehran - Tehran Monday distanced itself from Pyongyang's rocket launch, urging countries in that "sensitive region" to stay calm and apply their efforts to securing peace and stability.
