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A meeting of the UN Security Council is expected to be convened to discuss the issue of North Korea’s provocation of an intermediate-range ballistic missile.
Citing U.S. government officials, Archyde.com reported that the U.S. will soon demand a public meeting of the Security Council.
A meeting is convened if none of the member countries oppose the request for an open meeting of the Security Council.
It is explained that this is because China and Russia, which have veto rights as permanent members of the Security Council, have a negative stance on additional sanctions once morest North Korea.
In particular, at the Security Council meeting urgently convened in March following North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile test launch, China expressed its opposition to the strengthening of international sanctions, saying, “You must not do anything that will aggravate the situation.”
In 2017, the Security Council adopted Resolution 2397, which included provisions that automatically strengthen sanctions on oil supply to North Korea if North Korea fires an additional intercontinental ballistic missile when North Korea launched the Hwasong-15 missile in 2017.
The missile that North Korea fired over Japan this time is a medium-range ballistic missile presumed to be the Hwasong-12 type.
