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Article: 1st Ld-Writethru: DPRK's nuclear test a challenge to authority of UN Security Council: Japanese envoy
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- May 25, 2009
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1st Ld-Writethru: DPRK's nuclear test a challenge to authority of
UN Security Council: Japanese envoy
UNITED NATIONS, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Ambassador to the
United Nations Yukio Takasu said here on Monday that the nuclear
test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
is an "extremely important challenge" to the authority of the UN
Security Council.
Takasu told reporters after an emergency Security Council meeting
on Monday afternoon that the UNSC Resolution 1718 and the
Presidential Statement in April concerning DPRK's rocket launch are
very clear, "but the DPRK didn't heed to the call of the Security
Council."
He said if the DPRK keeps going in this way, it ...