This maritimeregimeought to include "no-go" areas for fishing vesselsarounddisputedislandsaimed atpreventingincidents at sea that couldinitiatea full-blownregionalsecuritycrisis.
Given the benefits of this positive path for the Iranian people, regionalsecurity, and the nuclear nonproliferation regime, we urge Iran to make this choice for peace to abandon its ambition for nuclear weapons.
What we have said, both leading up to and now in the aftermath of this launch, is that it was a provocative act that threatens regional peace and security and undermines the global non-proliferation regime.
The United States and other nations worry that North Korea's third nuclear test pushed it closer to its goal of gaining nuclear missiles that can reach the U.S. The international community has condemned the regime's nuclear and missile efforts as threats to regionalsecurity and a drain on the resources that could go to North Korea's largely destitute people.