North Korea Fires Projectiles After New UN Sanctions

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

By Jack Kim

North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea on Thursday, hours after the United Nations' Security Council voted to impose tough new sanctions on the isolated state and South Korean President Park Geun-hye vowed to "end tyranny" by the North's leader.

The firing escalated tensions on the Korean peninsula, which have been high since the North's January nuclear test and February long-range rocket launch, and set the South's military on a heightened alert.

South Korea's Defence Ministry said it was trying to determine if the projectiles, launched at 10 a.m. (0100 GMT) from the North's east coast, were short-range missiles or artillery fire.

Park has been tough in her response to the North's recent actions, moving from her earlier self-described "trustpolitik" approach, and on Thursday welcomed the move by the Security Council and repeated her call for the North to change its behaviour.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-nuclear-missiles-idUSL3N16B1CG

[DetlefK]

1. Here's an idea for sanctions that will REALLY hurt North Korea:

- Clothing may no longer be exported to North Korea.
- Products containing alcohol, tobacco, coffee and cocoa may no longer be exported to North Korea.
- The only edible products that may be exported to North Korea are dried rice-grains.

Kim Yong Un has a penchant for expensive scotch and whiskey, for cigars, for iranian caviar... That's gonna hurt.

[nitpicker]

2. Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35713977