UN Security Council meets on North Korea

July 13th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - North Korea must give up its controversial nuclear programme, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Monday after talks with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Lee said he supported sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council after North Korea on May 25 conducted an underground test of a nuclear device, which raised tensions in the region.

July 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN Security Council has condemned the recent missile launches by North Korea and urged the communist country to fully comply with its obligations and relevant UN resolutions. The Security Council "condemned and expressed grave concern at the (missile) launches, which constitute the violation of UN Security Council resolutions and pose a threat to regional and international security," Uganda's ambassador to the UN Ruhakana Rugunda said Monday.

July 4th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea fired six missiles from its eastern coast Saturday, the South Korean defence ministry said. The missiles, with a range of 400 to 500 km, were fired over the Sea of Japan between 8 a.m.

July 2nd, 2009 Chronology of North Korea's missile programDevelopments in North Korea's missile program: — Aug. 31, 1998: North Korea fires suspected missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean, calling it a satellite.

June 13th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea said Saturday that it would build more nuclear weapons in reaction to the United Nations Security Council resolution condemning its most recent nuclear test. It also said it would respond militarily to any attempt by the US and other countries to isolate it or impose a "blockade", according to a statement from the foreign ministry reported by the official Korean Central News Agency.

June 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN Security Council Friday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the recent nuclear test conducted by North Korea and imposing new sanctions.

June 8th, 2009 TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso asked visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan for Beijing's support to adopt a UN Security Council resolution against North Korea's nuclear test last month, media reports said Monday. Aso was quoted as telling Wang that Japan expected China to play a role in denuclearising Pyongyang, government officials said.

June 5th, 2009 US-China diplomats meet amid NKorea sanctions tripBEIJING — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg met with top Chinese diplomats Friday on a trip seeking support for tough new sanctions on North Korea, after he reportedly told South Korea the U.S.

May 29th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea warned the UN Security Council Friday that it would take "further self-defence measures" if the council imposed more sanctions on it for this week's nuclear test as media reports said it fired another short-range missile. North Korea denounced the Security Council, which includes Pyongyang's traditional allies China and Russia, for its unanimous condemnation of Monday's atomic test, North Korea's second after an initial test in 2006.

May 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama reassured the leaders of South Korea and Japan Monday that the US was committed to their security in telephone calls to coordinate the reaction to North Korea's nuclear test. Earlier Monday, the UN Security Council unanimously and strongly condemned the violation of international law represented by the early Monday explosion of a nuclear device by Pyongyang.

May 25th, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Monday to discuss the new challenge presented by North Korea's testing of a nuclear device. The 15-nation council met in a closed-door session after the council's five permanent members - the US, Russia, China, Britain and France - along with Japan and South Korea held a separate meeting to consider action against the Pyongyang government.

April 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - The world powers have agreed on a UN Security Council draft statement condemning North Korea's rocket launch, diplomats said Sunday. The five permanent members of the council and Japan agreed Saturday to the draft statement seen as a compromise between the supporters of tough measures against North Korea and restrained response to the communist regime's rocket launch.

April 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN Security Council is prepared to pass a unanimous statement as early as Monday that would condemn North Korea's rocket launch but stop short of a stronger resolution backed by Japan and the US. The statement, agreed on in a rare Saturday session of the 15-member council, would order North Korea to comply with a 2006 resolution or face further sanctions.

April 6th, 2009 NEW YORK - China has called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to be 'cautious and proportionate' in its reaction to North Korea's rocket launch. Ambassador Zhang Yesui, China's permanent representative to the UN, told a press conference here Sunday that the reaction of Security Council, which held an emergency session on the missile launch by Pyongyang, should be 'cautious and proportionate'.

April 6th, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN Security Council began Sunday afternoon a closed-door meet to discuss how to respond to the rocket launch of North Korea, as the US and France demanded 'strong action' against the communist country. The 15-nation Council kicked off the emergency session at about 3:15 p.m.