- Title: Merkel, South Korean president call for tougher sanctions on North Korea
- Date: 5th July 2017
- Summary: ****WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** MERKEL AND MOON ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR, ANGELA MERKEL, SAYING: "We support your efforts because we see that North Korea represents a great danger to world peace. The North Korean regime is continuing with its nuclear and missile programme against international law. At the centre of our talks we will discuss how we can best react, how we can maintain pressure and further increase sanctions." MERKEL TALKING NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR, ANGELA MERKEL, SAYING: "I can assure you that Germany stands with the Korean people to send a clear signal that we are against this missile programme, against nuclear weapons and we want to campaign for peace together." MERKEL SPEAKING MOON LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR, ANGELA MERKEL, SAYING: "We are united in our conviction that we can only shape globalisation and the coexistence of peoples if we do that on the basis of rules-based values, and that a rules-based world order is the guiding principle followed by the G20." PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT, MOON JAE-IN, SAYING ACCORDING TO INTERPRETER: "Yesterday North Korea tested a highly developed missile. This is naturally a great threat to the Korean peninsula and to the world. This is a great threat and provocation. North Korea should stop this immediately and we should work on more intensive sanctions. At the G20 summit we will hold talks with various government representatives but at the same time I think that we must solve the North Korean issue through peaceful means, and for this we are very reliant on Germany's support." JOURNALISTS MOON SPEAKING PHOTOGRAPHERS VARIOUS OF MERKEL AND MOON SHAKING HANDS, LEAVING
- Embargoed: 19th July 2017 19:08
- Keywords: Angela Merkel Moon Jae-In North Korea sanctions
- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
- City: BERLIN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0036OFXAVB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Germany and South Korea called for tougher sanctions against North Korea on Wednesday (July 5) after its test-launch of a newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile.
"This is a great threat and provocation," South Korean President Moon Jae-in said at a joint news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who echoed his call for consideration of more sanctions.
Moon said he would use the G20 summit of the world biggest developed and developing economies in Hamburg this week to drum up support for tougher sanctions against Pyongyang. But he also stressed that problems with North Korea had to be resolved through peaceful diplomacy.
North Korea said on Wednesday its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) could carry a large nuclear warhead, triggering a call by Washington for global action to hold it accountable for pursuing nuclear weapons.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Defense Department said it had concluded that North Korea had on Tuesday test-launched an ICBM, which some experts believe has the range to reach Alaska and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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