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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025
On 13 April (14 April East Asian time), Claude Heller, the Mexican president of the United Nations Security Council, read a “Statement” on behalf of the Council. He condemned North Korea for something described as a “launch” it had conducted on 5 April, demanded it desist from any further such act, reaffirmed the principles of a 2006 Security Council resolution (No 1718, adopted in the wake of North Korea's missile and nuclear tests of 2006, banning any “missile-related activity”), directed the UN Sanctions Monitoring Committee to take further steps to secure compliance and to advise on possibly widening the sanctions list, and called for early resumption of the Beijing Six Party negotiations on the North Korean problem.
[1] “Full text of U.N. Security Council's statement on N. Korean rocket launch,” Yonhap News, 14 April 2009.
[2] Neil MacFarquhar, “U.N. Council may rebuke North Korea,” New York Times, 12 April 2009.
[3] “Its official: N. Korea fired ‘missile’,” Asahi shimbun, 11 April 2009.
[4] Chosen shinpo, 5 April 2009. For web versions of these songs:
Song of General Kim Il-sung, and Song of General Kim Jong-il
[5] Kim Sue-young, “N. Korea likely to launch satellite, not missile, Dennis Blair,” Korea Times, 11 March 2009, quoting Dennis Blair, director of U.S. National Intelligence, and (on the configuration) Choe Sang-hun and David E. Sanger, “Defying world, North Koreans launch rocket,” New York Times, 6 April 2009.
[6] Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee to a National Assembly hearing in Seoul, “S. Korean gov't admits DPRK rocket followed satellite trajectory,” Xinhuanet, 14 April.
[7] Craig Covault, “North Korean rocket flew further than earlier thought,” Spaceflight Now, 10 April 2009.
[8] “ITU Dismisses N. Korean Satellite Claim,” Chosun ilbo, 10 April 2009.
[9] According to Henry Obering, Director of the US Missile Defense Agency till his retirement in 2008, interview in Asahi shimbun, 27 March 2009
[10] Lee Myung-bak, Transcript, Interview with the Financial Times, 29 March 2009.
[11] Kim So-hyun, “Seoul lags N.K in rocket technology,” The Korea Herald, 7 April 2009.
[12] For a fuller discussion of the relationship, see my “Japan and North Korea: the Long and Twisted Path towards Normalcy,” US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Working Paper series, WP08-06, November 2008.
[13] “Politics versus reality,” editorial, Nature, Vol. 434, 17 March 2005, p. 257 (in reference to DNA evidence on the Japanese victims of North Korean abduction).
[14] During 2000, one proposal considered was for North Korean satellites to be launched by the US in return for a North Korean pledge to suspend its own long-range missile development.
[15] Alliance of Concerned Scholars about Korea, “Statement,” n.d.
[16] The following compiled from two sources: Russian News and Information Agency Novosti, “Russian pundits play down N. Korea's missile threat,” Moscow, 6 April 2009, and “‘Kita misairu hassha’ Ro no senmonka-ra 'Nihon no hanno wa byoteki,” Sankei News, 7 April 2009.
[17] Selig Harrison, “Was the North Korean launch a ‘provocation’,” The Hankyoreh, 14 April 2009.
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