South Korea and the United States in response to the threat of North Korea will be engaged in deployment of missile defense – Rosbalt.RU

 South Korea and the US will hold official talks on the placing on the Korean peninsula missile defense system (NMD), THAAD (the American anti-missile complex rolling for ground-based high-altitude extra-atmospheric intercept medium-range missiles). The South Korean authorities have made an appropriate statement in response to Pyongyang’s message about the successful withdrawal of the rocket into orbit an artificial satellite “kwangmyŏngsŏng program” ( “Bright Star”).

 According to Seoul’s representative agreed to start formal negotiations would be “part of a joint effort to counter the North Korean threat.” In addition, the Republic of Korea and the United States will hold this year’s most ambitious in the history of joint military exercises, the Defense Ministry announced in South Korea.

 According to the agency “Yonhap”, the bilateral agreement was reached despite neobrenie Russia and China.

 In the South Korean intelligence, as it became known after the start, there is information that North Korea is preparing a nuclear test on fifth. No details with reporters to disclose scouts did not.

 South Korea’s military said earlier today that North Korea conducted a test of a ballistic missile under the guise of a space launch. These North Korean actions are in violation of UN Security Council resolutions prohibiting North Korea’s missile launches using ballistic technology. The South Korean government requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the launch of a rocket. Tonight Security Council will meet at 19:00 MSK.

 

 Russian Foreign Ministry, in turn, expressed the DPRK’s protest, the authorities advised her to think about as to whether the interests of the country’s policy of opposing themselves to the international community.

 

 “We have to state that Pyongyang does not heed the calls of the international community, once again demonstrating the defiant disregard for international law. It is clear that such actions lead to a serious aggravation of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia as a whole, are playing into the hands of those who relies on the bloc politics of confrontation and military build-up, causing serious damage to the security of states in the region, primarily the DPRK itself, “- said the press service of the department

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