Tokyo  - The Japanese Parliament on Tuesday condemned what it regards as a ballistic missile test by North Korea over the weekend.

The lower House called on the government to implement further sanctions against the Stalinist state and urged the UN Security Council to pass a resolution against North Korea.

Meanwhile, the five permanent members of the Security Council in New York continued their tug-of-war over a resolution on what North Korea claimed was the launch of a communications satellite.

Tokyo  - Japan's parliament on Tuesday condemned what it regards a ballistic missile test by North Korea over the weekend.

The lower house also called on the government implement further sanctions against the Stalinist state and urged the UN Security Council to pass a resolution against North Korea.

Meanwhile the five permanent members of the Security Council in New York continued their tug-of-war over a resolution on what North Korea claimed was the launch of a communications satellite.

Washington, Apr. 7: The US State Department has said that the failure of the U. N. Security Council or other international organizations to respond to a weekend rocket launch by North Korea does not signal a "win" for that rogue nation.

According to a Fox News report, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the international community is working closely on a coordinated response, and the severity of the violation only puts North Korea farther out on a limb by itself.

New York - The five veto-wielding powers and Japan continued wrestling Monday over Japan's insistence on a sharpened UN resolution against North Korea for testing a ballistic missile over the weekend.

The UN ambassadors from the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain held their second negotiating session with Japan since Sunday, when a three-hour session of the full Security Council ended with no results.

Washington  - The United States warned Monday of "difficult diplomacy" in finding agreement on a strong, effective international reaction to North Korea's defiant launching of a missile over the weekend.

"The issue's a bit complicated, as you know, and it's going to take time," Robert Wood, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, told reporters. "It's not something, I would suspect, that we could resolve in the next day or so. It's going to take time."