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STORY: UN / DPRK
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 8 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, flags outside the UN Headquarters
8 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan left, three ambassadors arriving at the stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (Englilsh) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“This is what bothers us; it hit less than two hundred nautical miles of Japan. They said their goal is to be able to reach the US bases in Japan. This is not something we can take lightly. The global community needs to understand; every country is in danger from the actions of North Korea.”
4. Cutaway, ambassadors at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (Englilsh) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“This is not a rational person, who has not had rational acts, who is not thinking clearly. So what I can tell you is that the stance of the United States is that we are re-evaluating how we are going to handle the North Korea going forward and we are making those decisions now and we will act accordingly.”
6. Wide shot, stakeout
7. SOUNDBITE (Englilsh) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We have to see some sort of positive action taken by North Korea before we can ever take them seriously. They’ve given us enough reasons to think how irresponsible that they are, that we ever try to think we are dealing with a rational person in this.”
8. Wide shot, stakeout
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Koro Bessho, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations:
“This is actually very dangerous. The three missiles which landed in our EEZ – the Exclusive Economic Zone, landed where fishermen do fishing for squids.”
10. Wide shot, stakeout
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Koro Bessho, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations:
“DPRK has no reason to shoot missiles in our direction because of whatever is a problem with THAAD. We are very peaceful nation, we have maintained our calm and self-restrain throughout all of this, but we feel that enough is enough.”
12. Cutaway, reporters
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Cho Tae-yul, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“Perhaps, the leadership in Pyongyang might have believed that these continued provocations may help enhance his bargaining leverage vis-à-vis the international community as a whole, but he was simply wrong. It will only further deepen North Korea’s isolation and accelerate its path towards self-destruction."
14. Cutaway, cameraman
15. Zoom out, ambassadors leaving
In response to reports that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has launched multiple ballistic missiles which landed within Japanese waters, the United Nations Security Council met Wednesday (8 Mar) in consultations.
After the meeting, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Nikki Haley told reporters that what the US is mostly concerned with is that missiles have hit less than two hundred nautical miles of Japan and that the stated goal of the DPRK is “to be able to reach the US bases in Japan.”
Haley said “the global community needs to understand; every country is in danger from the actions of North Korea.”
Calling the DPRK’s leader Kim Jong-un “not a rational person” US ambassador said “the stance of the United States is that we are re-evaluating how we are going to handle North Korea going forward and we are making those decisions now and we will act accordingly.”
Haley also said “we have to see some sort of positive action taken by North Korea before we can ever take them seriously. They’ve given us enough reasons to think how irresponsible that they are, that we ever try to think we are dealing with a rational person in this.”
Japan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Koro Bessho said “this is actually very dangerous. The three missiles which landed in our EEZ – the Exclusive Economic Zone, landed where fishermen do fishing for squids.”
Bessho also said, “DPRK has no reason to shoot missiles in our direction because of whatever is a problem with THAAD. We are very peaceful nation, we have maintained our calm and self-restrain throughout all of this, but we feel that enough is enough.”
South Korea's Ambassdor Cho Tae-yul said Pyongyang’s evident plan to “enhance his bargaining leverage vis-à-vis the international community” can only backfire and “it will only further deepen North Korea’s isolation and accelerate its path towards self-destruction."
North Korea launched four ballistic missiles Monday (6 Mar) in response to US military deploying its advanced Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system to South Korea responding in turn to the DPRK’s missile tests earlier this year.
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