North Korean leader’s influential sister condemns UN meeting on his latest ICBM

Kim Yo-jongthe influential sister of north korean leaderwho serves as deputy department director of the Central Committee of the country’s single party, condemned this Thursday the calling of a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to address its most recent launch of an ICBM.

Kim published a statement through the state news agency KCNA while the meeting was taking place, which ended without consensus due to opposition from China and Russiapermanent members of the organization with whom North Korea has been strengthening its relations recently.

The North Korean called the meeting a provocation and assured that the fact that the Security Council of the UN would hold a meeting like this “only to question the DPRK’s exercise of the right to self-defense, he laid bare its true facade, useless and impotent for international peace and security.”.

DPRK is the acronym for Democratic People’s Republic of Koreaofficial name of North Korea.

“I very much dislike the behavior of the Security Council of the UN to obey the bandits demand of USA and its satellite countries“said Kim, who urged these powers to “worry” onwards by how the regime will respond to future provocations.

The deputy department director of the single party Central Committee accused Washington and its allies of “persistently push the security environment on the peninsula Korea and Northeast Asia into a vortex of confrontation and conflict”.

Kim criticized the “incessant” military maneuvers USA together with his partners, “reminiscent of general preparations for an invasion under the pretext of deterring someone’s threats”, as well as the frequent appearance of US strategic nuclear assets that “clearly targeting the DPRK”, factors that he said are “the root cause” on the tension scale.

This last meeting of Security Council of the UN about North Korea It was called after the regime’s successful test on Monday of a solid-fuel Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the largest in its arsenal so far.

This week was Pyongyang’s fifth ICBM launch, a record number that underlines the significant military escalation that the Korean Peninsula has seen this year.