SEOUL - North Korea denounced the UN Security Council for holding a meeting on its recent satellite launch upon 'robbery demands' from the US, vowing to continue rejecting sanctions and taking 'self-defensive' action, state media KCNA said on Sunday (June 4). The US called for a UNSC meeting last week to discuss North Korea's attempt to put its first spy...
SEOUL - North Korea denounced the UN Security Council for holding a meeting on its recent satellite launch upon "robbery demands" from the US, vowing to continue rejecting sanctions and taking "self-defensive" action, state media KCNA said on Sunday .
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 US "political appendage" by accepting Washington's "robbery demands" to ignore the country's right to space development. She said the satellite launch was a "legitimate, self-defensive countermeasure" against increasing threats from the US and its allies, which Pyongyang have accused of rekindling tension with their annual springtime military drills.
In another dispatch, KCNA published a commentary by Kim Myong Chol, whom it described as an international affairs analyst, criticising a resolution adopted by the International Maritime Organisation's security committee.
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