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SEOUL – North Korea denounced the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for holding a meeting on the recent satellite launch following US “theft demands”, vowing to continue rejecting sanctions and taking “self-defense” measures, according to the state media KCNA. Sunday.
The US last week called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss North Korea’s attempt to launch its first spy satellite into orbit, which ended in failure, with the booster and payload falling into the sea. poured.
Ms. Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a powerful ruling party official, said the meeting was another sign that the council served as a “political appendage” to the US through its “robbery demands”. from Washington to accept the country’s right to space development.
“I am deeply offended that the UN Security Council routinely criticizes our exercise of sovereign rights, as the United States wants, and strongly condemns and denounces this as the most unfair, biased act of interference in internal affairs and encroachment on our sovereignty,” he said. Kim in a statement. statement carried by KCNA.
She said the satellite’s launch was a “legitimate, self-defense countermeasure” to the rising threat from the US and its allies, which Pyongyang accused of reigniting tensions with their annual spring military exercises.
North Korea will never recognize UN sanctions resolutions “even if they strike a hundred thousand times,” she said, vowing to continue exercising its sovereign rights, including launching spy satellites.
In another post, KCNA published a comment from Mr. Kim Myong Chol, who described it as an international affairs analyst, criticizing a resolution passed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) safety committee.
North Korea had informed the IMO of a timetable for the planned satellite launch and the resolution “strongly condemned” the isolated country’s missile tests “which seriously threatened the safety of seafarers and international shipping”.
The analyst also accused the IMO of being “completely politicized” by following the “hostile policies against North Korea” of the US and its allies. REUTERS
North Korea denounces UN meeting on satellite launch, ‘robbery’
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