Obama, Xi Emphasize ‘Impactful’ International Response to North Korea

© REUTERS / Kim Hong-JiA sales assistant watches TV sets broadcasting a news report on North Korea's nuclear test, in Seoul, January 6, 2016
A sales assistant watches TV sets broadcasting a news report on North Korea's nuclear test, in Seoul, January 6, 2016 - Sputnik International
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US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed a coordinated international response to the recent North Korean nuclear test and planned ballistic missile test, the White House stated in a press release on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — North Korea has notified the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of its plan to launch a satellite between February 8 and February 25.

"[T]he leaders emphasized the importance of a strong and united international response to North Korea's provocations," the White House said following a phone discussion between Obama and Xi.

US President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping agreed in a phone conversation that the ballistic missile test allegedly planned by North Korea would violate UN Security Council resolutions, the White House said in a press release on Friday.

"They [Obama, Xi] agreed that North Korea's planned ballistic missile test would contravene multiple UN Security Council resolutions and represent another provocative and destabilizing action," the press release stated.

A man watches a news report on North Korea's planned rocket launch as the television screen shows file footage of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket which launched in 2012, at a railway station in Seoul on February 3, 2016 - Sputnik International
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South Korea said Seoul would view any satellite launches by Pyongyang as a ballistic missile test, while Japan began deploying its missile launchers near the expected flight path of what both deem to be a ballistic missile.

North Korea previously reported a successful satellite launch in 2012, in violation of a UN Security Council resolution. The resolution bans Pyongyang from launching rockets that may be used as long-range ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads.

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