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Saturday 16 September 2017
At Press Time: UN condemning North Korea’s

UK threat level raised to “critical” level ‘highly provocative’ missile test

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Continued from Front tals, most of them for flash vice made from, and was KIM TONG-HYUNG
burns. None of the injuries it meant to go off when it Associated Press
Witness Chris Wildish told were serious or life-threat- did, in a leafy, affluent part UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council
Sky News that he saw “out ening, the emergency ser- of the city far from Lon- strongly condemned North Korea’s “highly provoca-
of the corner of my eye, a vices said. don’s top tourist sites? tive” ballistic missile test on Friday and demanded that
massive flash of flames that Trains were suspended British media reported that Pyongyang immediately halt its “outrageous actions”
went up the side of the along a stretch of the Un- the bomb included a timer. and demonstrate its commitment to denuclearizing
train,” followed by “an ac- derground’s District Line, Lewis Herrington, a terror- the Korean peninsula.
rid chemical smell.” and several homes were ism expert at Loughbor- The U.N.’s most powerful body accused North Ko-
Commuter Lauren Hub- evacuated as police set ough University, said that rea of undermining regional peace and security by
bard said she was on the up a 50-meter (150-foot) would set it apart from sui- launching its latest missile over Japan and said its
nuclear and missile tests “have caused grave security
concerns around the world” and threaten all 193 U.N.
member states.
North Korea’s longest-ever test flight of a ballistic mis-
sile early Friday from Sunan, the location of Pyong-
yang’s international airport, signaled both defiance of
North Korea’s rivals and a big technological advance.
After hurtling over Japan, it landed in the northern Pa-
cific Ocean.
Since U.S. President Donald Trump threatened North
Korea with “fire and fury” in August, the North has con-
ducted its most powerful nuclear test, threatened to
send missiles into the waters around the U.S. Pacific is-
land territory of Guam and launched two missiles of
increasing range over Japan. July saw the country’s
first tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles that could
strike deep into the U.S. mainland when perfected.
The intermediate-range missile test came four days
after the Security Council imposed tough new sanc-
tions on the North for its Sept. 3 missile test including a
ban on textile exports and natural gas imports — and
caps on its import of oil and petroleum products. The
U.S. said the latest sanctions, combined with previous
measures, would ban over 90 percent of North Korea’s
Armed police close to Parsons Green station in west London after an explosion on a packed
London Underground train, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. exports reported in 2016, its main source of hard cur-
(Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP) rency used to finance its nuclear and missile programs.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry denounced the sanc-
train when she heard a cordon around the scene cide attacks like those on tions and said the North would “redouble its efforts to
loud bang. while they secured the the London subway in 2005 increase its strength to safeguard the country’s sover-
“I looked around and this device and launched a or at Manchester Arena in eignty and right to existence.”
wall of fire was just coming search for those who plant- May, in which the attackers The Security Council stressed in Friday’s press state-
toward us,” Hubbard said. ed it. “all wanted to die.” ment after a closed-door emergency meeting that all
She said her instinct was The Metropolitan Police Photos taken inside the countries must “fully, comprehensively and immedi-
“just run,” and she fled the said hundreds of detec- train showed a white plas- ately” implement all U.N. sanctions.
above-ground station with tives, along with agents of tic bucket inside a foil-lined Japan’s U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho called the
her boyfriend. the domestic spy agency shopping bag, with flames launch an “outrageous act” that is not only a threat to
Chaos ensued as hundreds MI5, were looking at sur- and what appeared to be Japan’s security but a threat to the world as a whole.”
of people, some of them veillance camera footage, wires emerging from the Bessho and the British, French and Swedish ambassa-
suffering burns, poured carrying out forensic work top. dors demanded that all sanctions be implemented.
from the train, which can and speaking to witnesses. Terrorism analyst Magnus Calling the latest launch a “terrible, egregious, illegal,
hold up to 800 people. Speaking to reporters late Ranstorp of the Swed- provocative reckless act,” Britain’s U.N. Ambassador
“I ended up squashed on Friday, Assistant Commis- ish Defense University said Matthew Rycroft said North Korea’s largest trading
the staircase. People were sioner Mark Rowley said that from the photos it ap- partners and closest links — a clear reference to Chi-
falling over, people faint- police were making “good peared the bomb did not na — must “demonstrate that they are doing every-
ing, crying. progress” and that the pub- fully detonate, as much of thing in their power to implement the sanctions of the
There were little kids cling- lic should be reassured that the device and its casing Security Council and to encourage the North Korean
ing onto the back of me,” more police and troops will remained intact. regime to change course.”
said another commuter, be on the streets. “They were really lucky with France’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the
Ryan Barnett. “We are only aware of one this one, it could have re- country is ready to work on tougher U.N. and EU mea-
Passenger Luke Walmsley device,” he said. “We have ally become much worse,” sures to convince Pyongyang that there is no interest
said it was “like every man remnants of that device. he said. in an escalation, and to bring it to the negotiating ta-
for himself to get down the We are chasing down sus- Hunter, the explosives ex- ble. It said North Korea will also be discussed during
stairs.” pects.” He refused to pro- pert, said it appeared that next week’s annual gathering of world leaders at the
“People were just pushing,” vide further details, except “there was a bang, a bit of General Assembly.
he added. “There were to say the bomb involved a flash, and that would sug- The Security Council also emphasized the importance
nannies or mums asking the “detonation of an im- gest that, potentially, some of North Korea working to reduce tension in the Ko-
where their children were.” provised explosive device.” of the explosive detonated, rean Peninsula — and it reiterated the importance
Police and health offi- Among the questions au- the detonator detonated, of maintaining peace and stability on the territory di-
cials said 29 people were thorities were seeking to but much of the explosive vided between authoritarian North Korea and demo-
treated in London hospi- answer: What was the de- was effectively inert.” q cratic South Korea.q