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		</div><p>North Korea&#8217;s latest ballistic missile launches will be condemned by the UN Security Council, US Ambassador Samantha Power predicted following an emergency meeting.</p>
<p>She told reporters after the closed meeting there were &#8220;strong condemnations across the board&#8221; from all 15 council members, which she found encouraging.</p>
<p>However UN diplomats said attempts to condemn the launches have been held up by China.</p>
<p>South Korean and Japanese officials said a medium-range ballistic missile fired on Wednesday flew about 620 miles and landed near Japan&#8217;s territorial waters.</p>
<p>It was one of the longest flights by a North Korean missile, and the first time a missile landed in Japan&#8217;s exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from shore.<br />
The US Strategic Command said initial indications were that a second missile exploded immediately after launch.</p>
<p>Britain&#8217;s deputy UN ambassador Peter Wilson said as he headed into the emergency council meeting they were concerned that it was the first time a North Korean missile had landed in Japan&#8217;s EEZ.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our objective in this meeting is to draw attention to that fact, but also to come together to very, very clearly condemn it,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>After the meeting, Japan&#8217;s UN Ambassador Koro Bessho was heartened by the &#8220;many messages of solidarity&#8221; after his appeal to the council to be united and send a strong message to the world and especially to North Korea that its actions are &#8220;totally unacceptable&#8221;.</p>
<p>No date was announced for a follow-up meeting of council members or experts, but Mr Bessho said he hopes for council action as soon as possible.</p>
<p>South Korea&#8217;s UN Ambassador Oh Joon said so far this year North Korea has conducted 13 rounds of missile tests &#8211; including the firing of 29 missiles of different varieties, ranges and trajectories using mobile launchers and submarines.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are doing all of this with a systematic, comprehensive purpose of upgrading and refining their missile technologies, which is not only a grave challenge to the global nonproliferation system but also poses a clear and present danger to the security of all countries in the region,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is definitely in the interest of all countries to stop this dangerous series of provocations immediately.&#8221;</p>
<p>The ballistic missile launches on Wednesday were the third since the US and South Korea announced plans on July 8 to deploy an advanced missile defence system in South Korea by the end of next year &#8211; a move Pyongyang has denounced.</p>
<p>The council has condemned six other launches in April, May and June, but has not responded to a July 9 failed attempt by a North Korean submarine to launch a ballistic missile and the July 19 launch of two short-range Scud missiles and a Rodong intermediate-range missile.</p>
<p>China&#8217;s UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi told reporters that &#8220;the situation is tense and we need to do everything to de-escalate the situation&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ms Power said the South Korea missile defence system was &#8220;purely defensive&#8221; and aimed solely at protecting the South Korean people and US and other forces stationed there from North Korean ballistic missiles.</p>
<p>She stressed that the US will be pushing for implementation and enforcement of the sanctions &#8211; and is looking at adding individuals and organisations to the sanctions blacklist, which requires approval by all 15 council members.</p>
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