Pyongyang: According to media reports, North Korea “bitterly condemned” and rejected the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting held in response to Pyongyang’s unsuccessful attempt to launch a spy satellite. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a prominent ruling party official, described the meeting as an unfair and biased act that interfered in the country’s internal affairs and violated its sovereignty.
In a press statement, Kim Yo Jong expressed her displeasure with the frequent calls by the UNSC, upon the request of the United States, to hold North Korea accountable for exercising its rights as a sovereign state. She vehemently criticised and rejected such actions as the most unjust and biased forms of interference in internal affairs and infringement upon sovereignty.
The US had requested the UNSC meeting following North Korea’s failed satellite launch, which resulted in the launcher and payload crashing into the sea. Kim Yo Jong, also a vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), criticised the UNSC for organising a meeting based on what she called a “gangster-like US request.”
Kim Yo Jong further stated in the press statement that the UNSC is attempting to unilaterally deprive the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) of its sovereignty and rights to existence and development. Kim Yo Jong accused the UNSC of blindly following the provisions of illegal and unfair anti-DPRK “sanctions resolutions” that were concocted more than a decade ago.
Earlier last week, North Korea’s military satellite, named “Malligyong-1,” launched by a new-type rocket called “Chollima-1,” crashed into the Yellow Sea. The failure was attributed to the use of an engine system with low stability and the type of fuel employed in the rocket.
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