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A meeting of the UN Security Council is convened to respond to North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test launch.
The UN Security Council announced on the 24th that it would hold an open meeting to deal with North Korea and non-proliferation issues at the UN headquarters in New York at 3 pm on the 25th (local time).
It is the first time since 2017 that the Security Council is holding an open meeting on North Korea’s missile launch.
Archyde.com reported that the meeting was in response to a request from six countries, including Albania, Ireland and Norway, to convene a North Korean ICBM launch, including the permanent members of the Security Council including the United States, Britain and France.
It is reported that the six countries insisted on the need for countermeasures, pointing out that North Korea’s ICBM launch was a clear violation of the UN resolution on sanctions once morest North Korea.
North Korea launched a moratorium declaration in April 2018 that it would voluntarily suspend nuclear tests and ICBM test-fires in April 2018 by launching an ICBM from the Pyongyang Sunan Airfield at 2:34 pm Korean time on the 24th. broken in
In 2017, the Security Council adopted Resolution 2397, which included a provision to automatically tighten sanctions on oil supply to North Korea for additional ICBM launches following North Korea launched the Hwasong-15.
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China and Russia showed uncooperative attitude in the Security Council despite North Korea’s recent launch of ballistic missiles, but it seems that they did not oppose the convening of the meeting this time as North Korea fired an ICBM, a strategic provocation.
The two countries did not oppose the sanctions themselves, although they disagreed regarding the level of sanctions when North Korea conducted a nuclear test or launched an ICBM between 2016 and 2017.
However, it is unclear whether tangible results such as a resolution on additional sanctions once morest North Korea or adoption of a statement by the chairman or the press at the Security Council meeting will be achieved.
This is because, for the adoption of a Security Council resolution, at least 9 of the 15 members must support it and the 5 permanent members must not veto it.
As Russia’s confrontation with the U.S. and Europe has recently escalated in the U.N.’s confrontation with the West versus China and Russia, it is unlikely that it will be easy to obtain their cooperation on official measures at the Security Council level.
In the midst of this, US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said that the UN ambassadors to the United States, South Korea, Japan and the United Nations met on the same day to discuss the issue of North Korea’s ICBM launch.
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield posted a photo on Twitter with Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Cho Hyun and Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Kimihiro Ishikane on Twitter, saying, “I met the Korean and Japanese ambassadors at the UN following North Korea’s 13th ballistic missile launch this year.” Six countries, including the United States and Albania, have called for an emergency Security Council public meeting to address (North Korea’s) continuing destabilizing behavior,” he said.
United Nations ambassadors from South Korea, US and Japan gather for North Korea’s ICBM launch[연합뉴스]
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