North Korea “bitterly condemned” and rejected UNSC meet over satellite launch

PYONGYANG: North Korea “bitterly condemned” and rejected the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting held over Pyongyang’s failed spy satellite launch, state media reported on Sunday.

In a press statement, Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister and a key ruling party official called the UNSC meeting an “unfair and biased act” of interfering in its internal affairs and violating its sovereignty, according to Korea Central News Agency (KCNA). “I am very unpleased that the UNSC so often calls to account the DPRK’s exercise of its rights as a sovereign state at the request of the US, and bitterly condemn and reject it as the most unfair and biased act of interfering in its internal affairs and violating its sovereignty,” she said.

This response came after the US requested a UNSC meeting last week to address North Korea’s failed effort to launch its first spy satellite into orbit, which resulted in the launcher and payload crashing into the sea.

Kim Yo Jong, who is also vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) slammed the UNSC for holding a meeting in response to a “gangster-like US request,” vowing to resist sanctions and take steps to defend itself, as per KCNA.

“The UNSC held a meeting to take up the DPRK’s right to satellite launching as a single agenda item at the US gangster-like request. As a result, it produced another shameful record of working as a political appendage of an individual country,” the press statement said. “It is today’s universal reality that over 5 000 satellites with various aims and missions are now in their orbits around the Earth and even private companies are taking an active part in the space development,” it added. (ANI)

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