At the request of the US, the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting today (21st) in response to North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch.
Nate Evans, a spokesman for the US mission to the United Nations, released the request for an emergency meeting of the Security Council in a statement on the 18th, saying that North Korea’s actions “contrary to several Security Council resolutions, and that the Security Council must deal with them. North Korea’s increasingly reckless and destabilizing behavior,” he said.
Spokesman Evans said, “We urge you to unite in condemning North Korea’s dangerous and illegal actions.”
Foreign ministers from seven major countries (G7) also stressed the need for “substantial measures” against North Korea’s series of missile provocations, including ICBMs, yesterday (20th).
In a joint statement on the same day, foreign ministers from the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, Britain, France, and Italy pointed out that North Korea’s ICBM test fire on the 18th was an “act reckless” and “obviously other. contrary” to the United Nations resolution.
Earlier, UN Secretary General António Guterres strongly condemned North Korea’s ICBM launch and urged an immediate end to further provocations.
Regarding this, the Foreign Minister of North Korea, Choe Son-hui, strongly criticized the Secretary General of the United Nations as a “puppet of the United States” in a statement today (21st).
Foreign Minister Choi insisted, “The fact that he has agreed to conspire to put pressure on us by dragging our practice of our inviolable sovereignty to the Security Council proves beyond doubt that the Secretary is a puppet of the United States General of the United Nations.”
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