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The UN Security Council ended negotiations on North Korea’s recent launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles and ICBMs without concrete results.
In a meeting of the Security Council on North Korean nonproliferation issues held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the morning of the 21st local time, the United States, Western countries, South Korea, and Japan condemned North Korea’s repeated ballistic missile provocations and called for a unified official response at Security Council level.
However, China and Russia reiterated their current position that North Korea’s armed provocation was ‘the US’s fault’.
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, “The United States will offer a presidential statement. Lost,” he criticized.
South Korean Ambassador Hwang Joon-guk and Japanese Ambassador Kimihiro Ishikane were also present as interested parties and expressed similar views.
As expected, without concrete conclusions emerging, the ambassadors of 14 countries, including South Korea, the United States and Japan, issued a joint statement over the counter condemning North Korea’s ballistic missile provocations and calling for immediate denuclearization after the meeting.
