Pyongyang, who launched a new ballistic missile on Friday, attacked the UN chief on Sunday, Antonio Gutteres, described as “puppet of the United States”.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
The G7 countries criticized, Sunday, November 20, the launch “irresponsible” by North Korea of a new intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday, and called the United Nations Security Council to take new “significant measures “To end the tests. The council must meet on Monday on this subject.
Foreign Ministers of G7 countries have said that repeated missiles by North Korea “more destabilizing the region, despite the international calls for peace and stability”. >
The projectile that North Korea tested Friday seems to be its latest ICBM class ballistic missile, the potential scope of which would allow it to touch the American continent.
The G7 declaration calls for “a united and robust response from the international community” and underlines “the need for the United Nations Security Council to take new significant measures”.
The G7 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and the United States. A representative of the European Union joined the declaration.
“self -defense”
For his part, Pyongyang attacked this on Sunday, on Sunday, to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, calling him “puppet of the United States”.
“I express my deep regret of the fact that the UN secretary general observes a truly deplorable attitude, forgetful of the objective and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and its very mission which is to maintain the ‘Impartiality, objectivity and equity on all subjects, “said North Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs Choe Son, according to the state agency KCNA.
The UN chief had called North Korea on Friday to “immediately abstain” from any new “provocation” after this new shot, calling Pyongyang to return to the negotiation table.
Sunday, the North Korean Foreign Minister recalled that the Pyongyang authorities had “recently warned the UN Secretary General to examine the question of the Korean peninsula with impartiality and objectivity”.
She highlighted the “self-defense” policy of North Korea “in a worrying security environment in the region due to the dangerous military cooperation between the United States and its vassal forces”.
“The UN Secretary General, however, has made North Korea responsible rather than the United States,” said the Minister. Mr. Kim also reaffirmed that he would use the atomic bomb in the event of a nuclear attack on his country, according to KCNA.
thirty missile fire since the beginning of November
The United States, South Korea and Japan have intensified in recent months their joint military maneuvers since Kim Jong-Un declared in September that the North Korea nuclear status was “irreversible” .
Seoul and Washington notably led the biggest common air exercises in their history at the end of October and early November.
The North Korean State press agency KCNA said that the missile fired on Friday was a Hwasong-17, its last variant, which it considers “the most powerful strategic weapon in the world”. KCNA indicated that the North Korean leader Kim Jong One had attended the last launch in the company of his daughter.
Since the beginning of the month, North Korea would have drawn 30 short, medium and long range missiles, including that of Friday that landed in the exclusive economic zone of Japan, west of Hokkaido.
A series of test shots made in October included a probable ICBM which flew over and exceeded Japan, causing the triggering of alert sirens in the north of the country. North Korea launched more missiles in 2022 than in previous years.
The UN Security Council has adopted nearly a dozen resolutions imposing sanctions on North Korea due to its nuclear and ballistic activities since 2006.