North Korea’s foreign minister today criticized the “deplorable attitude” of UN Secretary-General António Guterres in condemning Pyongyang’s recent launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles, state news agency KCNA reported.
“I deeply regret that the UN Secretary-General has acted in a truly deplorable manner, violating the purpose and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and his own mission to ensure impartiality, objectivity and fairness in all matters. maintain, ignore,” said the chief. of North Korean diplomacy, Choe Son Hui, who accuses António Guterres of being “an American puppet”.
Choe Son Hui recalled that Pyongyang “recently asked the UN Secretary-General to look into the issue of the Korean peninsula with impartiality and objectivity,” highlighting North Korea’s “self-defense policy,” “in a worrying security environment in the region, due to dangerous military cooperation between the United States and its vassal power”.
“However, the UN Secretary-General blamed North Korea and not the United States,” the minister said.
North Korea on Friday launched an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the northern island of Hokkaido, according to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who called the release “absolutely unacceptable.”
The United Nations Secretary-General on the same day called on North Korea to “immediately desist” from any further “provocation” in response to the launch, reiterating his call for Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table.
The United States also responded on Friday by announcing it would convene the United Nations Security Council and expressing its intention to ask China, an ally of the North Korean regime, to help contain Pyongyang, using its influence.
The UN Security Council announced on Saturday that it would meet next Monday to discuss the situation.
In response to the launch of the North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile, the South Korean and US militaries responded with guided bomb tests of F-35 fighter jets and conducted other combined aerial maneuvers over the Baltic Sea, two operations simulating preemptive but also strikes. punitive operations against the North Koreans, in a message to Pyongyang.
The North Korean launch was conducted from the Sunan area, where Pyongyang International Airport is located, the place chosen by the regime to also launch other intercontinental ballistic missiles in February, March and March 3, although two of these launches were unsuccessful.
The launch joins a record 30 missiles launched by Pyongyang in early November in response to aerial maneuvers by Seoul and Washington, including a first such missile launched in November from the Sea of Japan.
Tensions on the peninsula are currently reaching unprecedented heights due to North Korea’s weapons tests, maneuvers by allies and the possibility that, according to satellite evidence, the Kim Jong-un regime is ready to conduct its first nuclear test since 2017.
The North Korean president assured on Friday that he would use the nuclear bomb in case of a nuclear attack on his country.
Pyongyang “will respond decisively to nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons and total confrontation with total confrontation,” the head of state, quoted by KCNA, said in remarks during his oversight of the launch of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), asking for the “acceleration of nuclear deterrence” in light of the “dangerous situation” on the peninsula.
The “new Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile,” defined as a “critical milestone in strengthening nuclear forces,” flew 999.2 kilometers before crashing into the waters of the Sea of Japan, according to KCNA.
Source: DN
