U.N. Security Council to meet urgently after North Korean regime’s hypersonic missile launches

The UN Security Council will meet urgently this Thursday to analyze the situation in North Korea, at the request of the United States, France and the United Kingdom, after the launch this week of a hypersonic missile in the Asian country.

Diplomatic sources indicated that the session will in principle take place on Thursday morning behind closed doors, specified the AFP a source, who did not indicate whether it would end with a joint statement from the Security Council.

This trilateral request from Washington, Paris and London It is the first sign of unity of the three capitals since the crisis which pitted France against the United States and the United Kingdom. in the case of Australian submarines.

Is also the first time in a long time that the United States has led an emergency Security Council meeting on North Korea.

In 2017, at the initiative of the Donald Trump administration, the Security Council has three times adopted a series of economic sanctions against Pyongyang after a nuclear test and missile tests.

North Korea announced on Wednesday that successfully tested a hypersonic glider missile, which could constitute an important technological advance.

Minutes after the shooting, North Korean Ambassador to the UN Kim Song said in a speech to the General Assembly that your country has the “legitimate right” to test weapons and “to strengthen (its) defense capacity”.

This Wednesday the dictator of North KoreaKim Jong Un rejects US “front” dialogue offers and accused President Joe Biden’s administration of maintaining hostile policies against them.

Contacts between the two countries initiated under Donald Trump’s mandate were interrupted in 2019 after the failure in Hanoi (Vietnam) of the second summit between the Republican President and the North Korean leader.

From your access to the White House, Joe Biden’s government has repeatedly offered the isolated Communist regime a meeting anywhere, at any time and without preconditions.

Kim condemned these proposals as “Nothing more than a facade to hide their disappointment and hostile acts, and an extension of the hostile policies of previous administrations”, according to the official journal Rodong Sinmun.

That same wednesday State Department says it has “no hostile intent” towards North Korea and that he is still open to the idea of ​​negotiating, after Kim Jong Un’s statements.

“The United States has no hostile intentions towards the DPRK”a State Department spokesperson said in a statement. “Our policy calls for a calibrated and practical approach that seeks serious and sustained diplomacy with the DPRK. to achieve tangible progress that increases the security of the United States, our allies and our forces on the ground, ”the text reads.

With Biden, “The American military threat and the hostile policy towards us have not changed at all, but have become more malicious,” he added. he said in a long speech to the Supreme People’s Assembly, the country’s one-party parliament.

(With information from AFP)

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