North Korea took a defiant stance against international fury over its launch however and China signaled it was reluctant to take a tough new measures.
The UN Security Council held emergency talks after the North, already under international sanctions for nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, ignored pleas from friends and foes and went ahead with a rocket launch that it said put a satellite into space.
“Members of the Security Council condemned this launch, which is a clear violation of Security Council resolutions 1718 and 1874,” said a statement released after the meeting.
The council highlighted a warning made after a failed launch in April that it could take “action” if there was a new attempt.
“Members of the Security Council will continue consultations on an appropriate response,” said the statement.
The United States said there had to be “consequences” for the breach of UN resolutions. US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said talks would start straight away on international action.
China’s UN ambassador Li Baodong resisted harder hitting language in the statement, diplomats at the closed meeting said.
Li opposed mentioning in the statement that the North had used “ballistic missile technology” but eventually gave in after pressure from Rice, the diplomats said.
He also argued that there was no reason to condemn China, the envoys added.
In Beijing, the Chinese government responded relatively quickly by expressing “regret” and pressing the country to abide by UN resolutions.
But in a commentary, state news agency Xinhua also decried “bellicose rhetoric and gestures” and defended North Korea’s right to explore space.
It called on all sides to avoid “stoking the flames.”The United States immediately pressed the need for action against the North when US undersecretary of defense Jim Miller met with Lieutenant General Qi Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of the Chinese army in Washington.
Miller “urged China to work with the United States and the international community to insist that North Korea live up to its commitments,” said a US statement.
The launch shows that “North Korea is determined to pursue its ballistic missile program without regard for it international obligations,” Rice told reporters.
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