North Korea on Thursday (2 June) skipped the diplomatic niceties for a combative tone when it took the helm of the Conference on Disarmament. Around 50 countries voiced their outrage that unpredictable nuclear-armed North Korea is being tasked with chairing the world’s most foremost multilateral disarmament forum for the next three weeks. North Korea took over the rotating presidency of the Geneva-based CD, according to a decades-old practice among the body’s 65 members following the alphabetical order of country names in English. North Korea, one of the most militarised countries in the world, has carried out a number of missile tests since the beginning of the year. “No country has the right to criticise or interfere in the national defence policy” of North Korea, he said.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 03, 2022 04:11 UTC