Key members of the United Nations Security Council
have agreed a draft statement condemning North Korea's rocket launch a week ago,
and demanding that Pyongyang refrain from any further such operations.
From Washington, John Donathen reports.
This statement does urge the council to step up the enforcement of its current sanctions against Kim Jong gurll's weapons' program.
It also says that in carrying out the launch
North Korea wasn’t conservation existing security council resolutions 1718 passed in 2006.
As is often the case with the United Nations,
this statement is a compromise.
It sends a message to North Korea,
but not in the strongest terms,
that America, and especially Japan, would’ve wanted.
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