Obama agreed to respond sternly to any provocations and
threats by the North and to continually enhance the firm
South Korea-US defense readiness.
Lee Myung-Bak, President of the South of Korea
The missile launch would further alienate the people of North Korea from its leadership, saying that “from the perspective of the people of North Korea, they will understand that its leaders are spending hundreds of millions of dollars just to test launch a long-range missile and, watching their leader do so, they are not going to feel proud that their country was able to launch a long-range missile, rather they will get, truly understand the nature of their leaders and understand why they have to go through such hardships.”