UNSC unanimously condemns North Korean rocket launch after China agrees to back new sanctions

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[quote=AJE][B]The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to condemn North Korea's December rocket launch and tighten existing UN sanctions against Pyongyang.[/B]

The rocket launch is considered part of a covert programme to develop ballistic missiles that can carry warheads.

The council on Tuesday reiterated its previous demand that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons programme in a "complete, verifiable and irreversible manner" and cease launches.

The secretive state, already under tough UN sactions for nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, said the launch was intended to put a satellite in space.

North Korea's space agency and new individuals were added to the UN sanctions list for an assets freeze and travel ban. The resolution approved by the 15-nation council was the result of a deal between the US and China, envoys said on condition of anonymity.

China and the US held weeks of top-level negotiations over the international response before the resolution was submitted for a vote.

Tough measures were sought by the US against North Korea's government, while China has sought to shield its ally against sanctions.

Even though the resolution does not impose new sanctions on Pyongyang, diplomats said China's support was a significant diplomatic blow to Pyongyang.[/quote]

[Meat Ghost]

United Nations Space Command

[editline]22nd January 2013[/editline]

god damn it smurfy

[lordcrypto]

relatively relevant

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE9ZBlSSNWw[/media]

[LowlyKommrad]

The UNSC irl would be cool as fuck.

Fascist societies are best societies.

[smurfy]

This was not meant to be a joke

Your minds have just been corrupted by those violent video games

[laserguided]

The one thing world leaders can agree on. North Korea is uniting our world for once.

[l337k1ll4]

Send in the ODSTs!

[OrionChronicles]

so the Chief is going to pay Kim Jong Un a visit?

[MIPS]

In other news, the world still has sand in their vagina about a poor country doing science instead of taking diplomacy like a slut.

[Lord of Ears]

[QUOTE=MIPS;39325061]In other news, the world still has sand in their vagina about a poor country doing science instead of taking diplomacy like a slut.[/QUOTE]

poor country ran by a megalomaniacal dictatorship with dreams of absolute world conquest

[MIPS]

[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;39325145]poor country ran by a megalomaniacal dictatorship with dreams of absolute world conquest[/QUOTE]

You can say that about a few countries, you know.

[Ganerumo]

Update : we got a response from North Korea

[quote="North Korea"]wort wort wort[/quote]

[DaysBefore]

[QUOTE=KommradKommisar;39320592]The UNSC irl would be cool as fuck.

Fascist societies are best societies.[/QUOTE]
I don't know if we saw enough of life away from the war to classify the UNSC fascist. And, they are only the military arm of the United Earth Government, they took power when everyone realized "Wow we're losing pretty bad here". They restored power to the democratic assembly, I believe, not long after the war ended.

[OrionChronicles]

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;39325890]Update : we got a response from North Korea[/QUOTE]

Send in the scorpions. Tank beats everything.

[dogmachines]

[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;39326664]Send in the scorpions. Tank beats everything.[/QUOTE]

Alternatively just drop a load of really big scorpions on Pyongyang.

[ScottyWired]

[QUOTE=dogmachines;39326676]Alternatively just drop a load of really big scorpions on Pyongyang.[/QUOTE]

lunch

[itak365]

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;39325890]Update : we got a response from North Korea[/QUOTE]

Agh, womomong!