Seoul:
North Korea stated on Monday that the U.N. Security Council showed a double normal as its sanctions committee criticised the country’s current missile test as a violation of U.N. resolutions.
North Korea launched a new form of tactical quick-variety ballistic missile final week, prompting Washington to request a gathering of the U.N. Security Council’s (UNSC) sanctions committee.
At the committee meeting on Friday, the United States referred to as for imposing added sanctions and tightening the implementation of current measures, denouncing the test as a violation of U.N. resolutions, according to Jo Chol Su, director-basic for international organisations at North Korea’s foreign ministry.
Jo stated the meeting was “designed to negate the right of our state to self-defence,” warning it would devise a “countermeasure.”
“It constitutes a denial of sovereign state and an apparent double standard that UNSC takes issue, on the basis of the U.N. ‘resolutions’ – direct products of the U.S. hostile policy,” Jo stated in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
“It does not make any sense that only our righteous self-defensive measure should be singled out for denunciation, when many other countries across the globe are firing all kinds of projectiles for the purpose of increasing their military strength.”
The statement came immediately after North Korea stated on Saturday that the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden had taken a incorrect initial step and revealed “deep-seated hostility” by criticising its self-defensive missile test.
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