The Foreign Minister of North Korea assured this Sunday in a statement that “deeply regrets” the condemnation of the intercontinental missile launch by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, indicated the state agency KCNA.
“I deeply regret the deplorable attitude of the UN Secretary General, who ignored the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and his own role of impartiality, objectivity and equity in all matters”said Minister Choe Son Hui.
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In addition, the North Korean minister branded Guterres a “puppet of the United States.”
The North Korean military on Friday launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that landed in the waters of Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
That launch was condemned by Western leaders and neighboring countries, such as Japan and South Korea, as well as the UN Secretary General.
Guterres urged Pyongyang to what “immediately desist from further provocative actions.”
After the North Korean president, kim jong unsaid in September that his country was a nuclear state “irreversibly”the United States strengthened military cooperation with Japan and South Korea, including sending a strategic bomber plane.
In response, North Korea has carried out several medium- and long-range missile launches in recent weeks.
The UN Security Council will discuss missile tests by the North Korean military on Monday.
kim jong un He personally supervised the launch of the missile on Friday and did so accompanied by his daughter, the first time one of the North Korean leader’s sons has appeared in state media.
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