Use of Force
United Nations

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution which condemned North Korea's recent missile launchings and demanded that the country suspend its ballistic missile programme. Japan and the US, the principal sponsors of an original tougher draft, agreed to drop the reference to Chapter VII of the Charter to forestall a veto by China. Wang Guangya, China's permanent representative to the UN, said after the vote that China had acted persistently to serve two major objectives of maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the unity of the Security Council.

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