SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it would make a rapid and effective response to the possible launch of a long-range rocket by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) via the UN Security Council.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Noh Kwang-il told a press briefing that the DPRK's launch of any ballistic missile will be a grave act of provocation and military threat in violation of the UN Security Council's resolutions that ban the DPRK's all acts using any ballistic missile technology.
To make possible rapid and effective responses through the UN Security Council to any possible DPRK launch of a long-range ballistic missile, South Korea would closely cooperate with related countries, including members of the UN Security Council, the spokesman said.
His comments came a day after the DPRK's National Aerospace Development Administration (NADA) said it was accelerating efforts at the final stage of developing satellites for earth observations, indicating the long-range rocket launch around the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea on Oct. 10.
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