21 March 2017

News Story: UN urges DPRK to fully comply with international obligations & DPRK blasts U.S. administration for tough remarks on Pyongyang

UN urges DPRK to fully comply with international obligations

UNITED NATIONS, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Monday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to fully comply with its international obligations while commenting on the latter's test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine over the weekend.

When answering the question about UN Secretary-General's response to the test at the daily news briefing, UN Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General Farhan Haq said that "you have seen our basic concern about the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and our concern about the various tests."

"We want ultimately for the DPRK to comply fully with relevant resolutions of the Security Council and it needs to refrain from further provocations and comply with its international obligations."

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DPRK blasts U.S. administration for tough remarks on Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday blasted the U.S. administration for pressurizing Pyongyang with threatening remarks when U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Asia recently.

Tillerson said Friday at a joint press conference with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se in Seoul that all options were on the table to resolve the Korean Peninsula's nuclear issue, including diplomatic, security and economic measures.

Tillerson said that a so-called "strategic patience" policy toward the DPRK has ended, referring to the U.S. foreign policy in the past decade under which Washington had refrained from having talks with Pyongyang before its sincere efforts at denuclearization.

The top U.S. diplomat indicated a need for tougher U.N. Security Council sanctions on the DPRK's nuclear program and other weapons of mass destruction.

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