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N. Korea plans to launch missiles Japan would immediately consider imposing economic sanctions on North Korea should it test-launch a long-range ballistic missile and would request that the U.N. Security Council take up the issue, Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned June 18. "(A launch) would clearly violate the (2002) Pyongyang Declaration. Protests would be very vehement," the foreign minister said, referring to North Korea's pledge to continue its moratorium on firing ballistic missiles. North Korea has reportedly loaded booster rockets for a Taepodong-2 missile onto a launch pad at a base in the country's northeast, leading Japanese and U.S. officials to suspect a firing could be imminent. Aso said the government could invoke several revised laws that allow sanctions against North Korea if a missile is launched.
The Japan Times Weekly: June 24, 2006 |
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