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Remember that our South Korean friends make everything possible for GP and GPH.
So if North Koreans decide to cause major trouble, our South Korean friends surely will be affected.
Should the UN impose sanctions on North Korea?
Nth Korea vows to continue missile tests
A defiant North Korea acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that it had launched a missile, vowed to carry out more tests and threatened to use force if the international community tried to stop it.
Pyongyang's statement came as the United States and Japan closed ranks in the face of a UN Security Council split over whether to slap sanctions on North Korea over the volley of missiles it fired off on Wednesday.
"The successful missile test was part of a regular military exercise conducted by our military to boost our self-defence," Yonhap news agency quoted a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying on KRT state television.
"If anyone tries to discuss the rights and wrongs about (future tests) and apply pressure, we will be forced to take physical actions of a different nature."
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and US President George W Bush, speaking by telephone, agreed to work together for a UN resolution demanding that nations halt funds and technology that could be used for Pyongyang's missile program.
Their call, reported by Japan's Kyodo news agency, came after Russia and China opposed slapping sanctions on North Korea - echoing the split among the UN Security Council's veto-wielding members over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
North Korea launched at least six missiles from its east coast early on Wednesday.
As the international community fumed, it launched a seventh some 12 hours later, Japanese and South Korean officials said.
The missiles included a long-range Taepodong-2, which some experts had said could hit Alaska.
US officials said it flew for only about 40 seconds before splashing into the sea west of Japan.
South Korea's defence minister told a parliamentary committee that an analysis of equipment and personnel being moved in and out of a missile-launch site in North Korea suggested the possibility of additional launches, Yonhap reported.
South Korean daily Chosun Ilbo cited a government official as saying the North might be looking to launch three or four more intermediate-range missiles.
And NBC News, citing unnamed US officials, said preparations appeared to be under way for a second Taepodong test, but the weapon was not yet at the launch pad.
Experts say it takes days, if not weeks, to prepare a Taepodong-2 for firing. Tokyo said it did not expect an imminent launch.
In Washington, Bush said the missile tests further isolated North Korea but did not diminish his desire to resolve a standoff over its nuclear and missile programs.
Six-country talks on ending the North's nuclear ambitions have been stalled since last November.
Yahoo News
So if North Koreans decide to cause major trouble, our South Korean friends surely will be affected.
Should the UN impose sanctions on North Korea?
Nth Korea vows to continue missile tests
A defiant North Korea acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that it had launched a missile, vowed to carry out more tests and threatened to use force if the international community tried to stop it.
Pyongyang's statement came as the United States and Japan closed ranks in the face of a UN Security Council split over whether to slap sanctions on North Korea over the volley of missiles it fired off on Wednesday.
"The successful missile test was part of a regular military exercise conducted by our military to boost our self-defence," Yonhap news agency quoted a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying on KRT state television.
"If anyone tries to discuss the rights and wrongs about (future tests) and apply pressure, we will be forced to take physical actions of a different nature."
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and US President George W Bush, speaking by telephone, agreed to work together for a UN resolution demanding that nations halt funds and technology that could be used for Pyongyang's missile program.
Their call, reported by Japan's Kyodo news agency, came after Russia and China opposed slapping sanctions on North Korea - echoing the split among the UN Security Council's veto-wielding members over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
North Korea launched at least six missiles from its east coast early on Wednesday.
As the international community fumed, it launched a seventh some 12 hours later, Japanese and South Korean officials said.
The missiles included a long-range Taepodong-2, which some experts had said could hit Alaska.
US officials said it flew for only about 40 seconds before splashing into the sea west of Japan.
South Korea's defence minister told a parliamentary committee that an analysis of equipment and personnel being moved in and out of a missile-launch site in North Korea suggested the possibility of additional launches, Yonhap reported.
South Korean daily Chosun Ilbo cited a government official as saying the North might be looking to launch three or four more intermediate-range missiles.
And NBC News, citing unnamed US officials, said preparations appeared to be under way for a second Taepodong test, but the weapon was not yet at the launch pad.
Experts say it takes days, if not weeks, to prepare a Taepodong-2 for firing. Tokyo said it did not expect an imminent launch.
In Washington, Bush said the missile tests further isolated North Korea but did not diminish his desire to resolve a standoff over its nuclear and missile programs.
Six-country talks on ending the North's nuclear ambitions have been stalled since last November.
Yahoo News
