South Korea called the launches a provocative act, according to a government statement.
All three are accused of disorderly behaviour and assault on police, while one of the men is also charged with a provocative act.
After a period of time, the North Koreans tend to follow up their effective walkout with a provocative act such as a missile test.
Thomas Schieffer, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, called the launches "a provocative act, " and the White House said Pyongyang had further alienated itself from the world community.
The United States views the launch as "a provocative act, " one official said, and "will respond in the event of a launch" by seeking action from the U.N.
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.
With new leaders in South Korea, Japan and China, North Korea's nuclear test also fits another longtime pattern of a undertaking a provocative act early in the tenure of other political leaders, then following it with steps to smooth relations in hopes of persuading the others to provide financial aid and other assistance.
The PKK, if this was in fact on Sunday a cross-border raid and ambush against Turkish forces just a few miles into Turkish territory, if this was in fact a PKK raid - and there are competing claims about that, Alex - then this was a very provocative act by the PKK, perhaps a call of the Turkish bluff.
The Duke of Cambridge's posting to the Falkland Islands has been condemned by Argentina as a "provocative act".
It is -- the plan itself to conduct a missile launch is in direct violation of North Korea's international obligations and represents a highly provocative act.
Mr Obama said the test was a "highly provocative act", and called for "swift" and "credible" international action in response.
In a joint news conference with his South Korea counterpart, Mr Kerry said that if Northern leader Kim Jong-un decided to go ahead with a launch it would be "a provocative and unwanted act that will raise people's temperature".
BBC: US warns N Korea missile launch would be 'huge mistake'
"It is one more provocative act that shows Britain's military presence in a zone of peace where there is no armed conflict, " he said.
He would, therefore, have to have knowingly dissembled when, shortly thereafter in the course of hastily organized briefings on Capitol Hill, he parroted the Obama administration meme that this act of jihad was actually just a spontaneous response to a provocative video.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Petraeus, Benghazi and passing the smell test
And that fact alone reinforces the kind of regime that we're dealing with when we talk about North Korea -- because the decision that they make to go through with this provocative act directly results in more deprivation for their people -- a people who are literally starving and suffer greatly because of the actions of the regime in Pyongyang.
He said the Law Commission produced a "provocative but very interesting" review five years ago, but the Labour government failed to act on it.
应用推荐