The UN’s under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, took the Security Council to task on Friday for a “lack of unity and action” on North Korea’s tests. Kim Yo Jong said the UN meeting was another reminder the council was acting as a “political appendage” to “gangster-like” Washington. She vowed to continue launching spy satellites, which the North has previously pitched as necessary to counterbalance the growing US military presence in the region. “The DPRK will continue to take proactive measures to exercise all the lawful rights of a sovereign state, including the one to military reconnaissance satellite launch,” she said. Analysts have said there is significant technological overlap between the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and space launch capabilities.

Source: Punch June 04, 2023 07:53 UTC