We leave this washington to go live tont new york, the un Security Council, holding an emergency session to discuss the enough. Emergency to discuss the north korea Missile Launch. Language]ng foreign thank you, mr. Chair, mr. President , members of the Security Council. According to the official news agency of the democratic peoples republic of korea, dp rk, and various governmental sources, at approximately 9 00 a. M. Local time on 4 july 2017, the dprk launched a ballistic fire ofhich it turns intercontinental ballistic issile rocket. The missile was launched in the pyongyang airfield. According to the dprk, and covered a distance of 933 kilometers during a 39midflight 802ching an altitude of 2, kilometers before impacting into the sea. According to these parameters, the missile would have a range. F roughly 6700 kilometers it launched on a more difficult trajectory, making it an intercontinental ballistic icbm, according to widely used definitions. Predprk again did not send launch
Relations with countries in europe. This follows the prior Webinar Series on north koreas relations with countries in the global south. The north korea in the world project is a joint initiative of the mk and the Eastwest Center that includes the north korea in the world website, which curates information and data on north koreas external economic and diplomatic relations through the world. My Eastwest Center colleague ross tokola is moderator for todays event. Ross is executive associate to the director of the Eastwest Center in washington. He gives advice and support to the director on ongoing nearterm and longterm strategic projects and programs and helps monitor progress and ensure effective coordination with eastwest enter in washington, its staff, and stakeholders. Previously he was a Program Officer at the Side Institute for policy studies. Asan institute for policy studies during his years in seoul. In addition to studying the korean language at hogan university in seoul, he ho