U.S.President Barack Obama told reporters in France Friday that the North Korean launch is provocative and should be stopped.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Bildt had to respond to that issue,too. "It is alarming, it is a condemnation of the provocative regime in Pyongyang.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

Adrien Brody plays Clive and says the provocative story of Splice crosses lines that will surprise maybe even shock the audience.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Australian officials describe the expulsions as unreasonable and provocative, while Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended the decision Wednesday to expel Fiji's most senior diplomat.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

South Korea,Japan, and the United States say the launch will be a provocative attempt to advance North Korea's ability to deliver warheads, via ballistic missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Clinton said a North Korean missile launch, for any purpose, would be a provocative act and a violation of U.N.Security Council resolution 1718 - approved after its 2006 nuclear test- demanding an end to Pyonyang's nuclear weapon and missile programs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

At the White House, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the threatened North Korea moves were "a serious step in the wrong direction" and urged Pyongyang to end what he termed its "provocative threats" and live up to its international obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Obama administration officials said they don't want to get involved in verbal sparring with North Korea but they did call its latest threats provocative and say Pyongyang stands only to further isolate itself from the world community if it follows through with them.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

State Department officials give no credence to the notion that the launch would be for scientific purposes and they say the United States is working diplomatically to try to prevent a North Korean action that they say would be provocative, destabilizing and unhelpful.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12