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The North Korean leader’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, criticized the UN Security Council meeting which discussed Pyongyang’s launch of a spy satellite. Photo/NBC News
SEOUL – North Korea (North Korea) condemned UN Security Council (DK). for holding a meeting about the recent satellite launch on “charges of robbery” from United States of America (US). North Korea vowed to continue to resist sanctions and take “self-defence.” So reported state media KCNA.
The US called a UN Security Council meeting last week to discuss North Korea’s attempt to place its first spy satellite in orbit, which ended in failure with the booster and payload falling into the sea.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and an official of the powerful ruling party, said the meeting was another sign that the UN Security Council was functioning as a US political adjunct by accepting Washington’s “robbery demands” to ignore the country’s right to foreign development. space.
“I am deeply offended that the UN Security Council routinely criticizes the exercise of our sovereign rights as the United States wishes, and strongly condemns and rejects this as the most unfair and prejudiced act of interfering in internal affairs and violating our sovereignty,” Kim Yo-jong said in a statement. a statement released by KCNA as quoted by Reuters, Sunday (4/6/2023).
He said the satellite launch was a legitimate countermeasure and defended himself against growing threats from the US and its allies, which Pyongyang accuses of reinflaming tensions with their annual spring military drills.
“North Korea will never recognize UN sanctions resolutions even if they slap it hundreds, thousands of times,” he said, pledging to continue exercising its sovereign rights, including launching spy satellites.
In other news, KCNA published comments by Kim Myong-chol, described as an international affairs analyst, criticizing the resolutions adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) security committee.
North Korea has notified IMO of the timeframe for its planned satellite launch, and the resolution strongly condemns the isolated nation’s missile tests as seriously threatening the safety of international sailors and shipping.
The analyst also accused the IMO of being fully politicized by adhering to the US and its allies’ hostile and anti-North Korean policies.
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