UN chief: North Korea rocket launch 'deeply deplorable'
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned North Korea's latest rocket launch and urged it to "halt its provocative actions," Ban's press office said in a statement on Saturday.
"It is deeply deplorable that (North Korea) has conducted a launch using ballistic missile technology in violation of relevant Security Council resolutions on 6 February 2016 despite the united plea of the international community against such an act," the office said.
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday carrying what it has said is a satellite. The UN Security Council plans to hold an emergency closed-door session on the North Korean launch on Saturday at 11am ET (4pm GMT).
