North Korea’s foreign minister has expressed “strong remorse” over UN chief Antonio Guterres’ combination of the country’s multinational ballistic bullet launch, state- run outlet KCNA said in a statement.
The North fired a multinational ballistic bullet on Friday in one of its most important tests yet, egging Guterres to prompt Pyongyang to halt any further “instigative conduct.”
Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui responded on Sunday by expressing “my strong remorse over the fact that the UN clerk general has taken a veritably deplorable station.”
The UN chief’s statement, Choe said, was”unconscious of the purpose and principles of the UN Charter and its proper charge which is to maintain equity, neutrality, and equity in all matters.”
She added that the occasion shows that Guterres “is a poppet of the US.”
Nuclear-fortified North Korea has conducted a record-breaking blitz of launches in recent weeks, and Pyongyang — and Moscow have constantly criticized Washington’s moves to boost the protection it offers to abettors Seoul and Tokyo.
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Monster bullet
Since Kim declared North Korea an “unrecoverable” nuclear state in September, the United States has ramped up indigenous security cooperation.
“We lately advised the UN clerk general to consider the issue of the Korean promontory on the base of equity and neutrality,” Choe said.
She added that the North had made clear that it would have to resort to “tone-defence under the worrying security terrain in the Korean promontory and the region caused by the US and its vassal forces’ dangerous military cooperation.”
“Nonetheless,” Choe said, “the UN clerk general shifted the blame for the case onto the DPRK rather than the US.”
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised Friday’s launch, which KCNA said was the Hwasong- 17 — dubbed the “monster bullet” by judges.
The missile flew 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) at an altitude of 6,100 km, South Korea’s military said, only slightly less than the ICBM Pyongyang fired on March 24, which appeared to be the North’s most powerful such test yet.
Latterly on Friday, Tokyo and Washington held common military drills in the airspace over the ocean of Japan.
The UN Security Council on Saturday said it would bandy North Korea in a Monday meeting.
Source: AFP
