China has said it disapproves of the United Nations adopting any new resolution on the Democratic People"s Republic of Korea (DPRK) rocket launch, and is opposed to any new sanction against the DPRK, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday.

A TV-grab from the Democratic People"s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Television on April 7 shows the inside of the control room where the three-stage rocket, is screened from a launch site in an undisclosed location in DPRK. [Xinhua]

<##IMAGE##>China maintains that the reaction from the Security Council should be conducive to safeguarding peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, and conducive to the six-party talks and also to the process of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, and it should also be conducive to safeguarding the international non-proliferation regime, Jiang said.

She added that China disapproves of the UN Security Council"s adoption of any new resolution on the rocket launch, and is opposed any new sanction against the DPRK.

China has noticed the DPRK"s announcement of its satellite launch on April 5 local time and other countries" concern over it. The UN Security Council had just passed a presidential statement as a response, calling relevant parties for fulfillment of resolution 1718, she said.

The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a presidential statement saying DPRK"s launching activity was "in contravention of Security Council resolution 1718" and urging the early resumption of the six-party talks.

In the statement, the 15-member council "condemns" the April 5 launch by the DPRK and calls on all member states to "comply fully with their obligations under resolution 1718," adopted by the council in October 2006.

Jiang said China hopes relevant parties would view the overall situation and long-term development, keep calm and show restraint, jointly safeguard peace and stability in the region and promote the process of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.

Jiang said this accords with the interest of the international community and those countries involved.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Vehemently Refutes
UNSC"s "Presidential Statement"

Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement Tuesday flatly rejecting the brigandish "presidential statement" which the U.S. and its followers finally released by abusing the UNSC to condemn the DPRK"s launch of satellite for peaceful purposes.

Saying that throughout history the UNSC has never taken issue with satellite launches, the statement continues:

First, the DPRK resolutely rejects the unjust action taken by the UNSC wantonly infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and seriously hurting the dignity of the Korean people.

Second, there would be no need to hold six-party talks which the DPRK has attended.

Now that the six-party talks have turned into a platform for infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and seeking to force the DPRK to disarm itself and bring down the system in it the DPRK will never participate in the talks any longer nor it will be bound to any agreement of the six-party talks.

Third, the DPRK will bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defence in every way.

It will take the measure for restoring to their original state the nuclear facilities which had been disabled under the agreement of the six-party talks and putting their operation on a normal track and fully reprocess the spent fuel rods churned out from the pilot atomic power plant as part of it.